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Commandment (209 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COMMANDMENT, THE NEW. ...
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Encamped (115 Occurrences)
... 17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness
of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in ...
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Camped (100 Occurrences)
... 17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness
of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in ...
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Rested (81 Occurrences)
... Luke 23:56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they
rested according to the commandment. (WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Traveled (104 Occurrences)
... 17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness
of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in ...
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Journeyed (111 Occurrences)
... Exodus 17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the ...
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Encamp (108 Occurrences)
... 17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness
of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in ...
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Edict (22 Occurrences)
... Esther 2:8 So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard,
and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the ...
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Transgress (26 Occurrences)
... (KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV). Matthew 15:3 But he answered and said unto them,
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? ...
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Precept (7 Occurrences)
... pre'-sept: A commandment, an authoritative rule for action; in the Scriptures generally
a divine injunction in which man's obligation is set forth (Latin ...
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Bible Concordance
Commandment (209 Occurrences)

Matthew 8:18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
(KJV ASV WBS)

Matthew 15:3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Matthew 15:6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
(WEB KJV DBY WBS)

Matthew 22:36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 7:8 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men-the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Mark 7:9 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Mark 10:5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Mark 12:28 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
(Root in KJV WEY DBY WBS)

Mark 12:30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.
(WEB KJV DBY WBS)

Mark 12:31 The second is like this,'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 15:29 But he answered his father,'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Luke 23:56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

John 10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

John 11:57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

John 12:49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

John 12:50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
(KJV ASV WBS)

John 15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Acts 1:2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)

Acts 15:24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying,'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Acts 17:15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Acts 23:30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
(KJV WBS)

Acts 25:23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
(KJV)

Romans 7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 7:9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 7:11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 7:13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 13:9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 14:23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. (24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, (25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; (26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.
(WEB)

Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
(KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

1 Corinthians 7:6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

1 Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

1 Corinthians 14:37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

2 Corinthians 8:8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Ephesians 6:2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope;
(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS)

1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
(KJV WBS)

1 Timothy 6:14 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Titus 1:3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Hebrews 7:5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Hebrews 7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Hebrews 7:18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Hebrews 11:23 By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

James 2:8 If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.
(WEY)

2 Peter 2:21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 Peter 3:2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

1 John 2:7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

1 John 2:8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

1 John 3:23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

1 John 4:21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

2 John 1:5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. The Revelation to John
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 John 1:6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Genesis 41:40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only concerning the throne will I be greater than thou.
(DBY)

Genesis 45:21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Exodus 6:13 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a commandment to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
(DBY)

Exodus 16:34 as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth Aaron let it rest before the Testimony, for a charge.
(YLT)

Exodus 17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Exodus 24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
(Root in KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 34:32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Exodus 36:6 Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Exodus 38:21 This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 3:16 And Moses numbered them, according to the commandment of Jehovah, as he had been commanded.
(DBY)

Numbers 3:39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 3:51 And Moses gave the money of them that were ransomed to Aaron and to his sons, according to the commandment of Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
(DBY)

Numbers 4:27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Numbers 4:37 These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Numbers 4:41 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Numbers 4:45 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Numbers 4:49 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Numbers 9:18 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
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Numbers 9:20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Numbers 9:23 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh's command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Numbers 10:13 They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
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Numbers 13:3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Numbers 14:41 Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Numbers 15:23 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Numbers 15:31 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Numbers 20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his peoples; for he shall not enter into the land that I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my commandment at the waters of Meribah.
(DBY)

Numbers 22:18 And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the commandment of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.
(DBY)

Numbers 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
(KJV ASV WBS)

Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
(KJV DBY WBS)

Numbers 27:14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
(KJV JPS WBS)

Numbers 27:19 and thou shalt set him before Eleazar the priest, and before the whole assembly; and give him commandment before their eyes.
(DBY)

Numbers 27:23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him commandment, as Jehovah had said through Moses.
(DBY)

Numbers 33:2 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Numbers 33:38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Deuteronomy 1:3 It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 1:26 Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Deuteronomy 1:43 So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Deuteronomy 5:31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

2. (n.) One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

3. (n.) The act of commanding; exercise of authority.

4. (n.) The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
COMMANDMENT, THE NEW

nu (entole kaine): The word "commandment" is used in the English versions of the Old Testament to translate several Hebrew words, more especially those meaning "word" (dabhar) as the ten words of God (Exodus 34:28) or king's "command" (Esther 1:12); "precept" (mitswah) of God (Deuteronomy 4:2), of a king (2 Kings 18:36); "mouth" or "speech" (peh) of God (Exodus 17:1), of Pharaoh (2 Kings 23:35). They express theocratic idea of morality wherein the will or law of God is imposed upon men as their law of conduct (2 Kings 17:37).

1. Christ and the Old Commandment:

This idea is not repudiated in the New Testament, but supplemented or modified from within by making love the essence of the command. Jesus Christ, as reported in the Synoptics, came not "to destroy the law or the prophets. but to fulfill" (Matthew 5:17). He taught that "whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:19). He condemned the Pharisees for rejecting the commandments of God as given by Moses (Mark 7:8-13). There is a sense in which it is true that Christ propounded no new commandment, but the new thing in His teaching was the emphasis laid on the old commandment of love, and the extent and intent of its application. The great commandment is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,. (and) thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets" (Matthew 22:34-40 Mark 12:28-34; compare Deuteronomy 6:5 Leviticus 19:18).

2. Principle instead of Law:

Whey the law realizes itself as love for God and man in men's hearts, it ceases to bear the aspect of a command. The force of authority and the active resistance or inertia of the subject disappear; the law becomes a principle, a motive, a joyous harmony of man's will with the will of God; and in becoming internal, it becomes universal and transcends all distinctions of race or class. Even this was not an altogether new idea (compare Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 51); nor did Christ's contemporaries and disciples think it was.

3. Christ's Love Fulfilled in Death Becomes the Law of the Church:

The revolutionary factor was the death of Christ wherein the love of God was exemplified and made manifest as the basis and principle of all spiritual life (John 13:34). Paul therefore generalizes all pre-Christian morality as a system of law and commandments, standing in antithesis to the grace and love which are through Jesus Christ (Roman 5-7). Believers in Christ felt their experience and inward life to be so changed and new, that it needed a new term (agape = "love") to express their ideal of conduct (see CHARITY). Another change that grew upon the Christian consciousness, following from the resurrection and ascension of Christ, was the idea that He was the permanent source of the principle of life. "Jesus is Lord" (1 Corinthians 12:3). Hence, in the Johannine writings the principle described by the new term agape is associated with Christ's lordship and solemnly described as His "new commandment." "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another" (John 13:34). To the Christians of the end of the 1st century it was already an old commandment which they had from the beginning of the Christian teaching (1 John 2:7 2 John 5); but it was also a new commandment which ever came with new force to men who were passing from the darkness of hatred to the light of love (1 John 2:8-11).

4. The New Revelation:

The term in the Gospel we may owe to the evangelist, but it brings into relief an element in the consciousness of Jesus which the author of the Fourth Gospel had appreciated more fully than the Synoptists. Jesus was aware that He was the bearer of a special message from the Father (John 12:49 Matthew 11:27), that He fulfilled His mission in His death of love and self-sacrifice (John 10:18), and that the mission fulfilled gave Him authority over the lives of men, "even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." The full meaning of Christ's teaching was only realized when men had experienced and recognized the significance of His death as the cause and principle of right conduct. The Synoptists saw Christ's teaching as the development of the prophetic teaching of the Old Testament. Paul and John felt that the love of God in Christ was a new thing:

(a) new as a revelation of God in Christ,

(b) new as a principle of life in the church, and

(c) new as a union of believers with Christ. While it is love, it is also a commandment of Christ, calling forth the joyous obedience of believers.

See also BROTHERLY LOVE.

T. Rees

COMMANDMENT; COMMANDMENTS

ko-mand'-ment (mitswah; entole): The commandments are, first of all, prescriptions, or directions of God, concerning particular matters, which He wanted observed with reference to circumstances as they arose, in a period when He spake immediately and with greater frequency than afterward. They were numerous, minute, and regarded as coordinate and independent of each other. In the Ten Commandments, or, more properly, Ten Words, EVm (debharim), they are reduced to a few all-comprehensive precepts of permanent validity, upon which every duty required of man is based. Certain prescriptions of temporary force, as those of the ceremonial and forensic laws, are applications of these "Words" to transient circumstances, and, for the time for which they were enacted, demanded perfect and unconditional obedience. The Psalms, and especially Psalm 119, show that even under the Old Testament, there was a deep spiritual appreciation of these commandments, and the extent to which obedience was deemed a privilege rather than a mere matter of constrained external compliance with duty. In the New Testament, Jesus shows in Matthew 22:37, 40 Mark 12:29, 31 Luke 10:27 (compare Romans 13:8, 10) their organic unity. The "Ten" are reduced to two, and these two to one principle, that of love. In love, obedience begins, and works from within outward. Under the New Testament the commandments are kept when they are written upon the heart (Hebrews 10:16). While in the Synoptics they are referred to in a more abstract and distant way, in both the Gospel and the Epistles of John their relation to Jesus is most prominent. They are "my commandments" (John 14:15, 21; John 15:10, 12); "my Father's" (John 10:18; John 15:10); or, many times throughout the epp., "his (i.e. Christ's) commandments." The new life in Christ enkindles love, and not only makes the commandments the rule of life, but the life itself the free expression of the commandments and of the nature of God, in which the commandments are grounded. Occasionally the word is used in the singular collectively (Exodus 24:12 Psalm 119:96 1 Corinthians 14:37).

See TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE.

H. E. Jacobs

NEW COMMANDMENT

See BROTHERLY LOVE.

Greek
1785. entole -- an injunction, order, command
... Word Origin from entellomai Definition an injunction, order, command NASB Word Usage
command (2), commanded* (1), commandment (38), commandments (23 ...
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2003. epitage -- a command
... See 2004 (). Word Origin from epitasso Definition a command NASB Word Usage authority
(1), command (3), commandment (3). authority, commandment. ...
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1778. entalma -- an injunction, ie religious precept
... commandment. From entellomai; an injunction, ie Religious precept -- commandment.
see GREEK entellomai. (entalmata) -- 3 Occurrences. 1777, 1778. ...
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1297. diatagma -- an edict, mandate
... commandment. From diatasso; an arrangement, ie (authoritative) edict -- commandment.
see GREEK diatasso. (diatagma) -- 1 Occurrence. 1296, 1297. ...
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1291. diastello -- to set apart, fig. to distinguish, to charge ...
... [1291 () means "to command (charge) "; "originally, . .to '; hence, 'to ,'
and so of a commandment or injunction to " (as), ie is " ().]. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
4687. mitsvah -- commandment
... 4686b, 4687. mitsvah. 4688 . commandment. Transliteration: mitsvah Phonetic
Spelling: (mits-vaw') Short Definition: commandments. ...
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2941. taam -- account, to be commanded, commandment, matter
... 2940, 2941. taam. 2942 . account, to be commanded, commandment, matter.
Transliteration: taam Phonetic Spelling: (tah'-am) Short Definition: account. ...
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565. imrah -- utterance, speech, word
... 564, 565. imrah. 565a . utterance, speech, word. Transliteration: imrah Phonetic
Spelling: (im-raw') Short Definition: commandment. commandment, speech, word ...
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6680. tsavah -- to lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command ...
... 18), commands (6), commission (3), commissioned (4), commit (1), gave a command
(1), gave them a charge (1), gave command (2), gave commandment (2), gave ...
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6310. peh -- mouth
... accordance* (1), accorded (1), according (9), according* (2), apt (1), beak (2),
boast* (1), boasting (1), collar (1), command (45), commandment (6), counsel (1 ...
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4406. millah -- a word, thing
... commandment, matter, thing. (Aramaic) corresponding to millah; a word, command,
discourse, or subject -- commandment, matter, thing. Word. see HEBREW millah. ...
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3982. maamar -- a word, command
... commandment, decree. From 'amar; something (authoritatively) said, ie An edict --
commandment, decree. see HEBREW 'amar. 3981, 3982. maamar. 3983 . ...
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6673. tsav -- perhaps command
... commandment, precept. Or tsav {tsawv}; from tsavah; an injunction -- commandment,
precept. see HEBREW tsavah. 6672b, 6673. tsav. 6674 . Strong's Numbers.
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1697. dabar -- speech, word
... 10), business (3), case (9), cases (1), cause (3), charge (2), Chronicles (3),
Chronicles* (38), claims (1), command (11), commandment (1), commandments (1 ...
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6490. piqqud -- a precept
... Definition: precepts. Word Origin from paqad Definition a precept NASB Word
Usage precepts (24). commandment, precept, statute. Or piqqud ...
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Library

The First Commandment
... I. The Ten Commandments: The Simple Way a Father Should Present Them to His Household
A. The First Commandment. You must not have other gods.(Exodus 20:3) ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/a the first commandment.htm

The Ninth Commandment
... I. The Ten Commandments: The Simple Way a Father Should Present Them to His Household
I. The Ninth Commandment. You must not desire your neighbor's house. ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/i the ninth commandment.htm

The Third Commandment
... 2. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 2.3 The Third Commandment. ... We have this commandment, therefore,
as a bridle for the tongue, to bind it to its good behaviour. ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 3 the third commandment.htm

"And this is his Commandment, that we Should Believe on the Name ...
... RELIGION. Sermon I. "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on
the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.". 1 ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon i and this is.htm

The Ninth Commandment
... 2. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 2.9 The Ninth Commandment. Thou shalt not ... This
commandment binds the tongue to its good behaviour. God has set ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 9 the ninth commandment.htm

The Eighth Commandment
... 2. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 2.8 The Eighth Commandment. ... There is. (1) The highway thief,
who takes a purse, contrary to the letter of the commandment. ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 8 the eighth commandment.htm

The First Commandment
... 2. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 2.1 The First Commandment. Thou shalt ... 3. Why is
the commandment in the second person singular, Thou? Why ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 1 the first commandment.htm

The Tenth Commandment
... 2. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 2.10 The Tenth Commandment. ... Use. Take heed and beware of
covetousness.' Luke 12:15. It is a direct breach of the tenth commandment. ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 1 the tenth commandment.htm

The First and Great Commandment
... The First and Great Commandment. A Sermon (No.162). Delivered on Sabbath
Morning, November 8, 1857, by the. REV. CH SPURGEON. at the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/the first and great commandment.htm

The Sixth Commandment
... 2. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 2.6 The Sixth Commandment. ... Life is the most precious thing;
and God has set this commandment as a fence about it, to preserve it. ...
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