'Commandment' in the Bible

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

Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Forasmuch as the king's commandment was rigorous, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that had taken up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because in selfwill he walked after the commandment of man.

And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile.

And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.

And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

But he answering said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

This is the great and first commandment.

For, leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men to keep washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do.

And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep.

And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;

And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is the first commandment of all?

And Jesus answered him, The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord;

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.

And a second like it is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.

But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends:

And having returned they prepared aromatic spices and ointments, and remained quiet on the sabbath, according to the commandment.

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him.

For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;

and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.

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

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

Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law; to whom we gave no commandment;

But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.

But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.

And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

but which has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognise the things that I write to you, that it is the Lord's commandment.

Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

that thou keep the commandment spotless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.

For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,

For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

By faith Joseph when dying called to mind the going forth of the sons of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones.

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles;

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

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

And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment.

And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.

I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

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