commandment
Rule requiring obedience
A commandment is an authoritative order or rule that must be obeyed.
The word carries religious weight from the Ten Commandments of Judeo-Christian tradition: Thou shalt not kill.
Outside scripture, commandment suggests rules treated as sacred or absolute: The first commandment of good writing is clarity.
Formal authoritative directive
- edictAuthoritative public command
- dictumAuthoritative formal statement
- proclamationFormal public announcement
- pronouncementFormal authoritative statement
fiat · injunction · directive · order · precept · rule · statute · ordinance
Hebrew prophet, liberator
- SinaiEgyptian peninsula, biblical peak
- tabletFlat portable computing device
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- TorahJudaism's core scripture
scripture · Sabbath · idolatry · blasphemy · biblical · divine law · sacred law · monotheism
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- conscienceInternal moral sense
duty · honor · justice · responsibility · honesty · adultery · covet · theft
Compliance with authority
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- submissionYielding to another's will
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
violation · transgression · disobedience · adherence · observance · binding · imperative · absolute
mandate
Formal authoritative directive
- edictAuthoritative public command
- dictumAuthoritative formal statement
- proclamationFormal public announcement
pronouncement · fiat · injunction · directive · order · precept · rule · statute · ordinance · canon
Moses
Hebrew prophet, liberator
- SinaiEgyptian peninsula, biblical peak
- tabletFlat portable computing device
- covenantBinding formal pledge
Torah · scripture · Sabbath · idolatry · blasphemy · biblical · divine law · sacred law · monotheism · worship
ethics
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
conscience · duty · honor · justice · responsibility · honesty · adultery · covet · theft · murder
obedience
Compliance with authority
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- submissionYielding to another's will
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
penalty · violation · transgression · disobedience · adherence · observance · binding · imperative · absolute · unconditional
- Bible Wordsthou, thee, thy, thine, unto
- Bible elementsparable, psalm, epistle, proverb, gospel
- commandmentsno other gods, honor thy parents, honor parents, no stealing, graven image
- moral teachingsmoral lesson, moral story, moral tale, moral fable, moral teaching
- Mosaic lawMoses, Mosaic law, tablets of stone, Mount Sinai, Sinai
- religious pronouncementscreed, dogma, pronouncement, bull, encyclical
commandmentsuggestion
Idea proposed for consideration
recommendation · request · plea · entreaty · appeal
commandmentpermission
Granted right to act
license · dispensation · liberty · freedom · exemption
commandmentopinion
Subjective personal belief
preference · whim · custom · convention · norm
- divine commandmentsLaws from a deity
- Ten CommandmentsScriptural moral code
- The Ten CommandmentsBiblical moral directives
- biblical commandmentReligious law from scripture
- religious commandmentsDivine behavioral mandates
- greatest commandmentSupreme religious instruction