Quotes About Commandment

Then he said, “Go among the troops and tell them, ëEach man must bring me his ox or his sheep, slaughter them in this place, and then eat. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.í” So that night everyone brought his ox and slaughtered it there.

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORDís commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ëBecause you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,

For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.

Do not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,

But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.

He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.

Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?

When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.

If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ëNeither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.

Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.

For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ëWhatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,í