Words similar to commandment

Example sentences for: commandment

How can you use “commandment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Was the punishment particularly harsh because the affair reminded everyone, including the King himself, that his Majesty behaved according to the “Revised” Commandment?
The Hebrew expression in the Sixth Commandment, lo tirtsach, is generally read: Thou shall not commit murder.
Allow me a short digression on the commandment against killing to illustrate the phenomenon of a text that carries one meaning on its surface and a more radical meaning beneath.
"I propose a new 12th Commandment," he says, playing off Reagan's 11th--Thou shalt not criticize a fellow Republican.
Once again, the analogy with the commandment against killing (or murder) proves instructive.