'Commandment' in the Bible

"Now this [is] the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach [to] you [for you] {to observe} in the land that you [are] about to cross [over] into to take possession of it,

And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe [and] do all [of] this commandment {before} Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.'

And [so] you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I [am] commanding you {today} to observe them.

Yes, if you diligently keep all this commandment that I [am] commanding you {to observe it}, by loving Yahweh your God {by walking in} all his ways and by holding fast to him,

You shall go after Yahweh your God, and him you shall revere, and his commandment you shall keep, and to his voice you shall listen, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast.

[so as] not to exalt his heart above his countrymen and not to turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, so that {he may reign long over his kingdom}, he and his children in the midst of Israel."

[then] {if you diligently observe this entire commandment} that I [am] commanding you {today} by loving Yahweh your God and by going in his ways {at all times}, then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and [that] Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I [am] commanding you to do this commandment.

And you shall say {before} Yahweh your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from the house and, moreover, I have given it to the Levite and to the alien and to the orphan and to the widow according to all your commandment that you commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments, and I have not forgotten [any of them].

Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, {saying}, "Keep all of the commandment that I [am] commanding you {today}.

[He will do this] if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law [and] if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self.

"For this commandment that I [am] commanding you {today} [is] {not too wonderful for you}, and it [is] not [too] far [from you].

And Yahweh {will deliver them to you before you}, and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you.

{According to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua}, he gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a plot of ground among the descendants of Judah, Kiriath Arba, which [is] Hebron ([Arba] was Anak's father).

{According to the commandment of Yahweh}, they gave him the city that he requested, Timnath Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt the city and settled in it.

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and law that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."

But they did not listen to their leaders, but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do [as their ancestors].

Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned because I have transgressed {the commandment of Yahweh} and your words, for I feared the troops and I listened to their voice.

And they did not turn aside from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites concerning anything, and concerning the treasury rooms.

And he commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment.

Any legal dispute that comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities concerning bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, and justice, you must warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before Yahweh, and that wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you must do that you do not incur guilt.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God or with respect to the law and the commandment to seek his God, he did with all his heart, and he prospered.

So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all of these women and their offspring, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

"We put on ourselves the commandment upon us to yearly give a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

[From] the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

For [like] a lamp [is] a commandment, and instruction [is] light, and the way of life [is the] reproof of discipline,

He who despises a word will bring destruction on himself, but he who respects a commandment will be rewarded.

And the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,

So he answered [and] said to them, "Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition?

"Teacher, which commandment [is] greatest in the law?"

This is the greatest and first commandment.

Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men."

And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition.

But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

And one of the scribes came up [and] heard them debating. [When he] saw that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

The second [is] this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

And they returned [and] prepared fragrant spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down {voluntarily}. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take possession of it again. This commandment I received from my Father."

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So [the things] that I say, just as the Father said to me, thus I say."

"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all [kinds of] covetousness. For apart from the law, sin [is] dead.

And I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life

and I died, and this commandment which [was] to [lead to] life was found with respect to me to [lead to] death.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

For the [commandments], "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet," and if [there is] any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

[that] you observe the commandment without fault, irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although {they are descended from Abraham}.

For on the one hand a preceding commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

For [when] every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, [he] took the blood of calves with water and scarlet wool and hyssop [and] sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known [it], to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

to remember the words proclaimed beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message which you have heard.

Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already is shining.

And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as {he commanded us}.

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

And now I ask you, lady (not as [if I were] writing a new commandment to you, but [one] that we have had from the beginning), that we should love one another.

And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.