commandment

Example Sentences

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Nor is there any commandment to spread the religion over the face of the earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

His crime: taking too seriously the biblical commandment to love thy neighbor and the injunction not to kill.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

“It would undercut safety and be the opposite of good business, the opposite of fulfilling the common carrier obligation, and the opposite of meeting the congressional commandment to serve the public.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

God of all creation, in Christ you gave us a new commandment that we should love one another, even as you love us.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023

These were the very Orthodox, and they obeyed literally the Biblical commandment And ye shall look upon it, which pertains to the fringes.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok