Quotes About Commandment

“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”

This is the first and greatest commandment.

You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ëWhatever you would have received from me is Corbaní (that is, a gift devoted to God),

But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ëHear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

The second is this: ëLove your neighbor as yourself.í No other commandment is greater than these.”

Then Jesus declared, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

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

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Keep this commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,

So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.