Commandments & Obedience Verses
God's holy laws, statutes, and ordinances — the foundation of a righteous and obedient life.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: {reprove: or, convince}
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we {are}.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. {sanctified...: or, truly sanctified}
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
And when he had said this, he breathed on {them}, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry {thee} whither thou wouldest not.
Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.