This is the first and great commandment.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

The one having my commandments, and keeping them, he is the one loving me with divine love: the one loving me with divine love, shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself unto him.

For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

On these two commandments hang all the law, and the prophets.

And in this we know that we have known him, if we are keeping his commandments.

And this is the divine love, that we may walk about according to his commandments; this is the commandment, That, as you heard from the beginning, that you may walk about in it.

And this is his commandment, that we may believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and we may love one another with divine love, as he has given to us commandment.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

I give unto a new commandment, That you must love one another with divine love; as I have loved you with divine love, that you must also love one another with divine love:

So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

In this we know that we love the children of God with divine love, when we love God with divine love and keep his commandments.

For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment which has been delivered unto them.

And He said to him, Why do you ask me concerning the good One? One is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.

And he said to Him, Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but the old one which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,