26 Bible Verses about commandments

This is the greatest command, and is first in importance.

"If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

Their worship of me is an empty show; the things they teach are only men's precepts.'"

Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."

For love to God means this, to practice obedience to His commands, and His commands are not burdensome,

The essence of the whole law and the prophets is packed into these two commands."

By this we can be sure that we know Him -- if we practice obedience to His commands.

Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.

His command is this, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and practice loving one another, just as He commanded us to do.

This is the command that we get from Him, that whoever loves God loves his brother too.

I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another.

So the law itself is holy, and its specific commands are holy, right, and good.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God, by continuing to love God and to obey His commands.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of uprightness than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command committed to their trust.

And He answered him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only One who is perfectly good. But if you want to get into that life, you must practice keeping the commandments."

But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

Dearly beloved, I am not writing you a new command, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message that you have heard.

"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good