“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

This is the first and greatest commandment.

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, he should acknowledge that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

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

For the commandments, “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

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