Bible Verses About Commandment
Bible verses about Commandment
Discover what the Bible says about commandment.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
Be thou my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my rock and my fortress.
For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
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When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Whoever despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
But he answered and said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
And honor not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
And he answering, said to [his] father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither have I at any time transgressed thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested on the sabbath, according to the commandment.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received from my Father.
Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show [it], that they might take him.
For I have not spoken from myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatever I speak therefore, even as the Father 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.
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there is] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.
He sendeth forth his commandment [upon] earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; [but] he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart to the other side.
Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
And the commandment which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] to death.
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and encamped in Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to drink.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which [are] upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in commandment to the children of Israel.
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand.
These [were] they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
These [are] they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.
According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.