'Command' in the Bible

but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith --

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

To the married I give this command -- not I, but the Lord -- a wife should not divorce a husband

With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, he should acknowledge that what I write to you is the Lord's command.

I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat."

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

Command and teach these things.

to obey this command without fault or failure until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ

Command those who are rich in this world's goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God's command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.