'Commandment' in the Bible

Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me;

Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;

Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

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

This is the first and great commandment.

"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men -- the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.

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

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

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

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

(14:25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope;

that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment 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 the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.