'Precepts' in the Bible

The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you the statutes and judgments, so that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess.

these are the testimonies (legal provisions) and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will tell you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may obey them in the land which I give them to possess.’

“Now this is the command; the statutes and the judgments (precepts) which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you might do (follow, obey) them in the land which you are crossing over [the Jordan] to possess,

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and judgments (precepts) which the Lord our God has commanded you?’

Therefore, you shall keep (follow, obey) the commandment and the statutes and judgments (precepts) which I am commanding you today.

“Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the [steadfast] lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers.

“Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His commandments and His judgments (precepts) and His statutes which I am commanding you today;

“Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments [it is your obligation to Him].

Today you have [openly] declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk [that is, live each and every day] in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments (precepts), and listen to His voice.

Keep the charge of the Lord your God, [that is, fulfill your obligation to] walk in His ways, keep His statutes, His commandments, His precepts, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may succeed in everything that you do and wherever you turn,

“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My precepts and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word (promises) with you which I made to David your father.

that He may guide our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways [following Him] and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His precepts which He commanded our fathers.

As for you, if you walk (live your life) before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, acting in accordance with everything that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My precepts,

And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.

The precepts of the Lord are right,making the heart glad;the command of the Lord is radiant,making the eyes light up.

to those who keep his covenant and to those who remember to observe his precepts.

Whatever he does is reliable and just, and all his precepts are trustworthy,

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do his precepts: his praise abideth for ever.

They do no unrighteousness;They walk in His ways.

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

The sum of Your word is truth [the full meaning of all Your precepts],And every one of Your righteous ordinances endures forever.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,They are regarded as a strange thing.

‘But in vain do they worship Me,Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’”

‘But in vain do they worship Me,Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

They were both of them upright before God, blamelessly obeying all the Lord's precepts and ordinances.

For the precepts, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Thou shalt do no murder," "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not covet," and all other precepts, are summed up in this one command, "Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thou lovest thyself."

For all who depend on the Law [seeking justification and salvation by obedience to the Law and the observance of rituals] are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed (condemned to destruction) is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, so as to practice them.”

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap.

If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as

(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

For you know what commandments and precepts we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

to keep all His precepts without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And this is how we know [daily, by experience] that we have come to know Him [to understand Him and be more deeply acquainted with Him]: if we habitually keep [focused on His precepts and obey] His commandments (teachings).

But whoever habitually keeps His word and obeys His precepts [and treasures His message in its entirety], in him the love of God has truly been perfected [it is completed and has reached maturity]. By this we know [for certain] that we are in Him:

By this we know [without any doubt] that we love the children of God: [expressing that love] when we love God and obey His commandments.

For the [true] love of God is this: that we habitually keep His commandments and remain focused on His precepts. And His commandments and His precepts are not difficult [to obey].

And this is love: that we walk in accordance with His commandments and are guided continually by His precepts. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should [always] walk in love.