70 Verbs to Use for the Word commandments

First, as written in heaven, for God is love; second, as written on the cross, for Christ is love; third, as written in our hearts, for Christianity is love,' And Drummond tells us that 'Loveis the rule for fulfilling all rules, the new commandment for keeping all the old commandments, Christ's one secret of the Christian life.'

They were breaking the seventh commandment in an abominable way.

His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king and shall we be subject and obey thy commandment?

He has given thee ten commandments, and let no man give thee an eleventh commandment out of his own conceit and will worship; calling unclean what God hath made clean, and cursing what God hath blessed.

And therein our Lord wrote the commandments.

Just after the Israelites were emancipated from their bondage in Egypt, while they stood before Sinai to receive the law, as the trumpet waxed louder, and the mount quaked and blazed, God spake the ten commandments from the midst of clouds and thunderings.

Thus Vladimir, having piously observed the commandments of Christ during the course of his long reign, had the consolation of seeing before his death the fruits of his own conversion in all the wide extent of his dominions.

If thou do so, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and sustain his precepts, and the people shall go home to their places in peace.

The beauty straightway vanished; they read commandments, all-excluding mountainous duty; an obligation, a sadness, as of piled mountains, fell on them, and life became ghastly, joyless, a pilgrim's progress, a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us; with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.

King Ahab by forsaking God's commandments, and following wicked superstitions, had troubled Israel, drawing sore judgments and calamities thereon; yet had he the heart and the face to charge those events on the great assertor of piety, Elias:

John Weever's Ancient funerall monuments (folio, 1631): 'The seruant obeyed and (like a good trusty Roger) performed his Master's commandment.'

[401] Johnson had set him to repeat the ninth commandment, and had with great glee put him right in the emphasis.

It is a complication, a comprisal, a collection and sum of all wickedness; opposite to all the principal virtues (to veracity and sincerity, to charity and justice), transgressing all the great commandments, violating immediately and directly all the duties concerning our neighbour.

The sin and ignorance of men will disturb his order, and rebel against his laws; and strange and mad things, terrible and pitiable things will happen, as they have happened ever since the day when the first man disobeyed the commandment of the Lord.

Bossuet, when consulted by the King as to his intended marriage, approved of it only on the ground that it was better to make a foolish marriage than violate the seventh commandment.

When they received his commandment they sought him with the more surety.

You recollect that on the last Sabbath, our pastor took for his text, the fifth commandment.

The commandments still stand, the moral law is abated not one jot, but in Christianity and in Christianity alone are we given power to fulfill the law and to add the new commandment, the summing up of them all, of love to God and man.

Ye do not truly believe, because ye are so full of sin, and despise God's commandments.

Now, these laws disable the persons on whom they bear, from fulfilling God's commandments, and, especially, His commandment to "search the Scriptures."

If we follow the commandments of God, we shall find this world a good place, as the old Jews found itwhenever they went right, and obeyed Godbecause we shall be obeying its laws, and they will reward us.

But if ye shall see and hear the commandment of the Eternal GOD, and will not hearken to or believe it, saying, our country is far off, our hills are strong, our sea is great; and in this confidence shall lead an army against us to know what we can do; he that made what is hard easy, and that which is far off near, the Eternal GOD himself knows that alone.

Then they asked if I had been in Heaven, that I should know the commandments of God?

"Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

They were conscientious men, who had learned the ten commandments and wished to do right; but this class was a small minority, and their objections were soon silenced by the all-powerful race argument.

70 Verbs to Use for the Word  commandments