100 Bible Verses about Gods Commandments

John 14:15 ESV / 189 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 110 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

John 15:10 ESV / 105 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Matthew 19:17 ESV / 95 helpful votes

And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 94 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

2 John 1:6 ESV / 93 helpful votes

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

Exodus 20:7 ESV / 92 helpful votes

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Exodus 20:15 ESV / 90 helpful votes

“You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 89 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Revelation 12:17 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

John 14:21 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Exodus 34:28 ESV / 83 helpful votes

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Deuteronomy 4:13 ESV / 82 helpful votes

And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.

Exodus 20:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes

“You shall have no other gods before me.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 77 helpful votes

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Revelation 22:14 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 75 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Romans 7:12 ESV / 73 helpful votes

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

Exodus 20:1-17 ESV / 73 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 71 helpful votes

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

1 Corinthians 7:19 ESV / 65 helpful votes

For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.

Exodus 20:6 ESV / 65 helpful votes

But showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 64 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 64 helpful votes

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Exodus 20:1 ESV / 64 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying,

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 63 helpful votes

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Hebrews 8:10 ESV / 62 helpful votes

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Exodus 20:4-6 ESV / 62 helpful votes

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

1 John 2:4 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Romans 7:7 ESV / 61 helpful votes

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Leviticus 22:31 ESV / 60 helpful votes

“So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.

1 John 2:3 ESV / 59 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

Mark 10:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

Matthew 5:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:17-19 ESV / 58 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 22:37-40 ESV / 57 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Romans 3:20 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

1 John 5:2 ESV / 54 helpful votes

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

Matthew 22:36-40 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 53 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 10:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me.

James 1:25 ESV / 48 helpful votes

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Exodus 24:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”

Exodus 20:3-17 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ...

James 1:22 ESV / 46 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Luke 12:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Deuteronomy 5:6-21 ESV / 46 helpful votes

“‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “‘You shall have no other gods before me. “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ...

Exodus 31:18 ESV / 46 helpful votes

And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Matthew 19:16-19 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.” He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Psalm 119:172 ESV / 45 helpful votes

My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Matthew 19:18 ESV / 44 helpful votes

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 44 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

Luke 18:20 ESV / 43 helpful votes

You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Deuteronomy 5:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes

But showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 42 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Romans 6:15 ESV / 41 helpful votes

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Romans 3:31 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Deuteronomy 30:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Deuteronomy 5:1-33 ESV / 41 helpful votes

And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said: ...

1 John 2:6 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Romans 7:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

Matthew 22:40 ESV / 40 helpful votes

On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 40 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Psalm 103:18 ESV / 39 helpful votes

To those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Exodus 20:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Hebrews 10:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”

Leviticus 26:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

Exodus 20:2-17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 35 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Romans 4:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

John 15:14 ESV / 34 helpful votes

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

Psalm 78:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes

So that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

Luke 4:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

1 Kings 2:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,

Deuteronomy 11:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes

“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

Deuteronomy 8:6 ESV / 32 helpful votes

So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.

Isaiah 56:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Romans 7:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Deuteronomy 6:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

That you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.

Isaiah 42:21 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

Deuteronomy 28:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Psalm 119:142 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.

1 John 3:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Psalm 119:151 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But you are near, O Lord, and all your commandments are true.

Deuteronomy 4:40 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

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