'Commandment' in the Bible
"Teacher, which is the greatest Commandment in the Law?"
"You neglect God's Commandment: you hold fast to men's traditions."
"Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions!
"The chief Commandment," replied Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord;
"The second is this: 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as thou lovest thyself.' "Other Commandment greater than these there is none."
Then they returned, and prepared spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested in obedience to the Commandment.
A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.
This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.
Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.
Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.
"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--
For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.
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