'Command' in the Bible

and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down! For it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'On [their] hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'"

And Peter answered him [and] said, "Lord, if {it is you}, command me to come to you on the water!"

They said to him, "Why then did Moses command [us] to give a document--a certificate of divorce--and to divorce her?"

Now [when] Jesus saw that a crowd was running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter into him no more!"

And he answered [and] said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,'

But he answered [and] said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

These [things] I command you: that you love one another.

But some of those who had believed from the party of the Pharisees stood up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to command [them] to observe the law of Moses!"

And she was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed and turning around, said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out {immediately}.

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

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

Now concerning virgins I do not have a command from the Lord, but I am giving an opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.

For the Lord himself will descend 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, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat.

Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

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

Command these [things] and teach [them].

And command these [things], in order that they may be irreproachable.

I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all [things] and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

but at the proper time has disclosed his message in the proclamation [with] which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior,