'Commandment' in the Bible

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.