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

This is the first and greatest commandment.

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.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

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.

and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

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

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

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.

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

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

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

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.