This
summary of Bible Teaching is provided to assist brothers and
sisters in Christ
to live before God as acceptable disciples,
(With
acknowledgements to Bro Robert Roberts for the original compilation
'Commandments of Christ')
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it; 'You shall love your neighbour
as yourself." (Matthew 22:37)
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Follow
the example of God - show love and mercy to all. |
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1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
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Ephesians
5:1
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2
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Have
faith in God. |
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22
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
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Mark
11:22
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3
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Trust
in His care for you. |
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25
¶Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for
your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink;
nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not
the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
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Matthew
6:25
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4
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Pray
to God always. |
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41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the
spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Matthew
26:41
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5
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Obey
His commandments and teaching. |
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37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind.
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Matthew
22:37
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6
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Give
thanks to Him for everything, particularly for all the
blessings given to you. |
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20
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the
Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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Ephesians
5:20
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7
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Demonstrate
that you are truly a son or daughter of God, by your quality
of life. |
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2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;
who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of
sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint
in your minds.
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Hebrews
12:2-3
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8
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Think
about Jesus as much as possible - his teaching, his life,
death, resurrection and his Second Coming. |
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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery
to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him
the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness
of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given
him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of
God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse
nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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Philippians
2: 5-11 & 15
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Study the Gospel records of his life and teaching so that
you may know him as a real, living person. |
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15
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as
I have done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater
than he that sent him.
17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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John
13:15-17
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10
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Remember his death by Breaking Bread with your 'brothers
and sisters in Christ' as often as possible. |
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24
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,
Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you:
this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when
he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament
in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance
of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this
cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
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1
Corinthians 11:24-26
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11
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Be not ashamed of Him - preach his Name and his Gospel
of Salvation to all people. |
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28
¶And now, little children, abide in him; that,
when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not
be ashamed before him at his coming.
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1
John 2:28
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12
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Prepare for his return to the earth - remember that he
might come at any time! |
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14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they
may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in
through the gates into the city.
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Revelation
22:14
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