GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Commandments of God
See also Commandments, the Ten; Law; Obedience, Obedient, Obey; Sin; Word of God

The laws and requirements that God gives to mankind, either individually or collectively. Keeping the commandments will bring blessings of the Lord to the obedient (D&C 130: 21).

Noah did according to all that God commanded him, Gen. 6: 22. Walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, Lev. 26: 3. Keep my commandments, and live, Prov. 4: 4 (Prov. 7: 2). If ye love me, keep my commandments, John 14: 15 (D&C 42: 29). Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, 1 Jn. 3: 22. His commandments are not grievous, 1 Jn. 5: 3. Be immovable in keeping the commandments, 1 Ne. 2: 10. The Lord gives no commandments save he shall prepare a way, 1 Ne. 3: 7. I must do according to the strict commands of God, Jacob 2: 10. Inasmuch as ye keep my commandments, ye shall prosper in the land, Jarom 1: 9 (Alma 9: 13; 50: 20). Learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God, Alma 37: 35. These commandments are of me, D&C 1: 24. Search these commandments, D&C 1: 37. Those who do not keep the commandments cannot be saved, D&C 18: 46 (D&C 25: 15; 56: 2). My commandments are spiritual; they are not natural or temporal, D&C 29: 35. Commandments are given so that we may understand the Lord's will, D&C 82: 8. I know not, save the Lord commanded me, Moses 5: 6. The Lord will prove men to see if they will do all that he commands them, Abr. 3: 25.