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

Some referred to the commandment "thou shalt not kill".

From BBC • May 13, 2025

“Do you think we’re going to betray the greatest commandment, to love your neighbor as yourself?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 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

I say, "Jesus taught that the greatest commandment was to love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your might."

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz