Definition of Commandment

Commandment

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

The act of commanding; exercise of authority.

The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

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Commandment Quotations

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
Sophocles

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
Theodore Bikel

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
Anne Hutchinson

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
Alice Miller

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
Barbara Mikulski

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Charles William Eliot

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
Marvin Harris

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
Norman Lamm

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.
Richard Rolle

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis

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Commandment Translations

commandment in German is Gebot, Vorschrift
commandment in Hungarian is parancsolat
commandment in Spanish is mando
commandment in Swedish is bud

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