commandments
364 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers’: because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.
My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.
Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind.
But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself merciful and just, that it may go well with thee.
And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully, as I have commanded thee, and defer not to do them.
Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary to all nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by us cannot go forward.
And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandments.
Thus in process of time an ungodly custom grown strong was kept as a law, and graven images were worshipped by the commandments of kings.
For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, that thy children might be kept without hurt:
The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are everlasting commandments.
If thou desire wisdom, keep the commandments, and the Lord shall give her unto thee.
Let thy mind be upon the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually in his commandments: he shall establish thine heart, and give thee wisdom at thine own desire.
They that fear the Lord are a sure seed, and they that love him an honourable plant: they that regard not the law are a dishonourable seed; they that transgress the commandments are a deceivable seed.
If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform acceptable faithfulness.
The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive the fruit of the tree of immortality.
And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.
Remember thy end, and let enmity cease; [remember] corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.
Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy neighbour: [remember] the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.
He that is merciful will lend unto his neighbour; and he that strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments.
Lay up thy treasure according to the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.
A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth other men’s business for gain shall fall into suits.
In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the keeping of the commandments.
But be continually with a godly man, whom thou knowest to keep the commandments of the Lord, whose mind is according to thy mind, and will sorrow with thee, if thou shalt miscarry.
He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his judgments.
He gave unto him his commandments, and authority in the statutes of judgments, that he should teach Jacob the testimonies, and inform Israel in his laws.
And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:
Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.
Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.