Quotes about Commandments

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,

so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.

And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.

I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.