Quotes about Commandments

You might find yourself wondering whether all this detail is really necessary, that God could really have stopped after the Ten Commandments and not gotten into leprosy, eating pork, or how to dress and ordain a priest.

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,

And God spoke all these words:

but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”

“Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”