Bible Verses About The Ten Commandments And Christian Obedience

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Direct passage that loving God means keeping his commandments.

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.

Shows love and keeping commandments together.

In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Direct passage linking obedience to life and blessing.

And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

Direct passage that keeping commandments is righteousness.

To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Direct passage that the commandments are for one's good.

For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

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Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

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Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

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And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Explicit biblical naming of the Ten Commandments.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Direct passage of Jesus saying to keep his commandments.

Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

Direct passage calling for obedience to the Lord's commands.

Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

Direct passage to keep commandments and do them.

Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

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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.

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And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

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Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

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For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Background verse listing commands summed up by love.

And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

Direct biblical identification of the Ten Commandments on tablets.

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.

Parallel gospel passage for the same teaching.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Shows the biblical idea that the doer of the law shall live.

A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:

Direct passage tying obedience to blessing.

If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

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And God spake all these words, saying,

Opening of the Ten Commandments in Exodus.

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

Covenant obedience scene from Exodus tied to the giving of the law.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Background verse for the law and the prophets saying.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Background verse on love fulfilling the law.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Background verse on love fulfilling the law.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Direct passage connecting love with law-fulfillment.

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

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And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

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And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

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