But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ¹  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

Because he has despised ¹  the word of the Lord and has broken ²  his commandment, that person ³  must be completely cut off. ⁴  His iniquity will be on him.’” ⁵ 

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up ¹  your tradition.

I want you to recall ¹  both ²  the predictions ³  foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. ⁴ 

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

to obey ¹  this command ²  without fault or failure until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ

On the one hand a former command is set aside ¹  because it is weak and useless, ² 

He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors ¹  and to observe his law and commands. ² 

The Lord’s precepts are fair ¹  and make one joyful. ²  The Lord’s commands ³  are pure ⁴  and give insight for life. ⁵ 

The one who despises instruction ¹  will pay the penalty, ²  but whoever esteems instruction ³  will ⁴  be rewarded. ⁵ 

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. ¹  Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.” ² 

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him ¹  and in you, because ²  the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ³ 

But now ¹  I ask you, lady (not as if I were ²  writing a new commandment ³  to you, but the one ⁴  we have had from the beginning), ⁵  that ⁶  we love one another.

(Now this is love: that we walk ¹  according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus ²  you should walk in it. ³ 

So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?” ¹ 

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts. ¹ 

This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment ¹  of the Lord, by the authority ²  of Moses.

all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority ¹  of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations –