Bible Verses About Commandments

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou art .' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'

`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these are things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

`Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'

And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --

and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

`Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings--commands of men.'

And having called near the multitude, he said to them, `Hear and understand:

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'

And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

let them alone, guides they are--blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

And Peter answering said to him, `Explain to us this simile.'

And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?

do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;