Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

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

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

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

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,

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

This requires the steadfast endurance of the saints – those who obey God’s commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus.

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

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?”

You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

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

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.”

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

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you greetings, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him).

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.