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.
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.
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.
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Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.
In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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