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Here's some info on the 613 commandments from the Torah. However, the 613 only cover the first 5 books of the Bible, the Torah, but there are more commandments in the Writings and the Prophets (another 34 OT books), besides what can be gleaned from the lessons from all the stories (history), etc.

 

Here's some links:

https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Taryag/taryag.html

https://www.feldheim.com/concise-sefer-hachinuch

https://www.therefinersfire.org/original_commandments.htm (list is at the bottom of page)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments

https://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/756399/jewish/The-613-Commandments.htm

https://www.gospeloutreach.net/613laws.html

 

Every commandment  has a positive and negative, and an external and internal component. I listed the 10 commandments from Exodus 20 here below and did a quick categorizing into their Negative External (Nx), Negative Internal (Ni), Positive Internal (Pi), and Positive External (Px) parts.

 

 

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Exodus 20: And God spake all these words, saying,

 

FIRST TABLET: 01-05 TOWARDS GOD

01 God (Authority) Nx:FalseGods Ni:HateGod Pi:LoveGod Px:Obedience

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

 

02 Idolatry (Worship) Nx:Idolatry Ni:Unfaithfulness Pi:Faithfulness Px:Worship

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

 

03 Swearing (Speech) Nx:Swearing Ni:Sacrilege Pi:Reverence Px:Praise

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

 

04 Sabbath (Sacrifice) Nx:NonObservant Ni:Disrespectful Pi:SubmissionToGod Px:SabbathEtc

(This commandment includes all temporal and amoral, vs. eternal and moral/immoral, commandments.)

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

 

 

SECOND TABLET: 06-10 TOWARDS MAN

 

05 Parents (Authority: Husband/Wife, Parent/Child, Master/Servant, Ruler/Ruled) Nx:Disobedience Ni:Rebellion Pi:SubmissionToMan Px:Obedience

(This commandment has a promise of reward with it.)

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

 

06 Murder (Violence) Nx:Murder Ni:HateMan Pi:LoveMan Px:SacrificeSelf

13 Thou shalt not kill.

 

07 Adultery (Sex) Nx:Adultery Ni:SexualLust Pi:PureThought Px:Virginity/Marriage

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

 

08 Stealing (Property) Nx:Stealing Ni:Covet Pi:Generousity Px:Giving

15 Thou shalt not steal.

 

09 Lying (Speech) Nx:Lying Ni:Unbelief Pi:Faith Px:Testifying/Teaching

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

 

10 Coveting (Thoughts) Nx:Complaining Ni:Coveting Pi:Contentment Px:Rejoicing

(This is an explicitly internal commandment.)

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

 

Exodus then continues with “judgments.” They can all be assigned to one of the 10 commandments.

Concerning Servants (05PX)

21 “Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them:If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing. 

“And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. ...

Concerning Violence (06PX)

12 “He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.13 However, if he did not lie in wait, … then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee. ...

15 “And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

16 “He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

17 “And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. ...

22 “If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Etc.

 

All the commandments in the Bible are summarized in the 10 commandments: the others give more info about and expand upon and apply them. Also, the 10 can be summarized in 2: Love God and love man.

 

In this next section, I list (one listing of) the 613 commandments in the 'chronological' order they are found in the scripture, and I started to categorize them as to which of the Ten Commandments they fall under. For example, Be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28) probably falls under the positive external aspect of the 7th commandment, Thou shalt not commit adultery, so I categorized it as 07PX. 

 

07PX

Gen. 1:28

On to be fruitful and multiply

04PX

Gen. 17:10

On circumcising one's son

04PX

Gen. 32:33

Not to eat the sinew of the thigh-vein, gid ha-nasheh


Ex. 12:2

Sanhedrin to sanctify New Moon, & reckon years & seasons


Ex. 12:6

On the 14th of Nisan slaughtering the Pesach lamb


Ex. 12:8

On eating the roasted Pesach lamb night of Nisan 14/15


Ex. 12:9

Not to eat the Pesach offering boiled or raw


Ex. 12:10

Allow not meat of Pesach lamb to remain till morning


Ex. 12:15

On removal of chametz, leaven (yeast) on (Nisan 14) Pesach


Ex. 12:16

Not to work on the first day of Pesach


Ex. 12:16

Not to work on the seventh day of Pesach


Ex. 12:16

On resting on the first day of Pesach


Ex. 12:16

On resting on the seventh day of Pesach


Ex. 12:18

On eating Matzah the first night of Pesach, (Nisan 15)


Ex. 12:19

Not to possess chametz, leaven(ed), during Pesach


Ex. 12:43

Not to allow an apostate to eat the Pesach offering


Ex. 12:45

Not to allow an alien resident to eat Pesach offering


Ex. 12:46

Not to break any bones of Pesach lamb offering


Ex. 12:46

Not to remove Pesach offering from where it is eaten


Ex. 12:48

An uncircumcised person may not eat the Pesach offering


Ex. 13:2

Sacrificing the First-born of clean (permitted) cattle


Ex. 13:3

Not to eat chametz, leaven(ed), on Pesach


Ex. 13:7

No chametz may be seen in our homes during Pesach


Ex. 13:7

Not to eat an admixture of chametz/leaven(ed) on Pesach


Ex. 13:8

Tell of Exodus from Egypt 1st night Pesach, (Nisan 15)


Ex. 13:13

...breaking the neck of the firstling of an ass


Ex. 16:29

Not to walk beyond permitted limits, eruv, on Shabbat


Ex. 20:2

To believe in God


Ex. 20:3

Not believing in any other god except the One God.


Ex. 20:4

Not to make images for the purpose of worship


Ex. 20:5

Not to bow down to an idol


Ex. 20:5

Not to worship idols


Ex. 20:7

Not taking the Holy Name in vain, shevuas shav


Ex. 20:8

On declaring Shabbat holy at its onset and termination


Ex. 20:10

Not to work on Shabbat


Ex. 20:12

On honoring parents


Ex. 20:13

Not abducting an Israelite


Ex. 20:13

Not murdering a human being


Ex. 20:16

Not bearing false witness


Ex. 20:17

Not coveting another man's possessions/property, etc.


Ex. 20:20

Not to make figures of human beings


Ex. 20:25

Build not an Altar of stones which were touched by iron


Ex. 20:26

Not to have an ascent to the Altar by steps


Ex. 21:2

On the special laws for treating the Hebrew bondman


Ex. 21:8

...allow the redemption to the Hebrew bondmaid


Ex. 21:8

Hebrew bondmaid married to her master or his son, or...


Ex. 21:8

Not selling a Hebrew maidservant. & if you marry her...


Ex. 21:10

...withhold not: food, raiment, or conjugal rights


Ex. 21:15

Not to strike parents


Ex. 21:16

On strangling transgressors of certain commandments


Ex. 21:17

Not cursing parents


Ex. 21:18

On the penalty for a person inflicting injury


Ex. 21:20

On beheading transgressors of certain commandments


Ex. 21:28

Not to eat the flesh of a condemned & to be stoned ox


Ex. 21:28

On the law of injuries caused by an animal


Ex. 21:33

On the law of injuries caused by an pit


Ex. 21:37

On the law of punishment of thieves


Ex. 22:4

On the law of a judgment for damage caused by a beast


Ex. 22:5

On the law of a judgment for damage caused by a fire


Ex. 22:6

On the law of an unpaid guardian


Ex. 22:8

On the law of litigants


Ex. 22:9

On the law of a paid guardian


Ex. 22:13

On the law of a borrower


Ex. 22:15

On the seducer must be punished according to the law


Ex. 22:17

Not permitting a witch/sorcerer to live


Ex. 22:20

Not harming the stranger among you verbally


Ex. 22:20

Not injuring the stranger among you in business/trade


Ex. 22:21

Not afflicting the orphans and widows


Ex. 22:24

Not demanding payment from a debtor known unable to pay


Ex. 22:24

Not participating in an agreement involving interest


Ex. 22:24

On lending money to the poor without interest


Ex. 22:27

Not to curse a judge


Ex. 22:27

Not to curse a ruler


Ex. 22:28

Not changing the order of separating the various tithes


Ex. 22:28

On Redeeming the First-born of man, Pidyon ha-ben


Ex. 22:30

Not to eat an animal which is torn or mauled, a treifah


Ex. 23:1

A Judge is not to receive a wicked man's testimony


Ex. 23:1

Judge not to hear one litigant in absence of the other


Ex. 23:2

Court may not convict by majority of 1 in capital case


Ex. 23:2

Judge accept not colleague's opinion, unless sure right


Ex. 23:2

On in case of division, abiding by a majority decision


Ex. 23:5

On helping unload when necessary a tired animal


Ex. 23:5

Refuse not to help man or animal collapsing with burden


Ex. 23:6

A Judge is not to discriminate against the wicked


Ex. 23:7

No conviction based on circumstantial evidence alone


Ex. 23:8

A Judge is not to accept bribes/gifts from litigants


Ex. 23:10

Leave not sacrificial portions of Pesach lamb overnight


Ex. 23:11

On ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year (shemittah)


Ex. 23:12

On resting on the Shabbat


Ex. 23:13

Not to divert any non-Jew to idolatry


Ex. 23:13

Swear not by an idol nor instigate an idolater to do so


Ex. 23:14

On the three annual Festival pilgrimages to the Temple


Ex. 23:15

Go not to Temple on pilgrim festivals without offering


Ex. 23:19

Not to boil young male goat (meat) in its mother's milk


Ex. 23:19

On separating & bringing First-fruits to the Sanctuary


Ex. 23:25

To serve God


Ex. 23:32

Not to make a pact with the Seven Canaanite Nations Deuteronomy


Ex. 23:33

No one serving false gods to settle in Eretz-Israel


Ex. 25:8

On building a Sanctuary/(Tabernacle/Temple) for God


Ex. 25:15

Not to remove the staves from their rings in the Ark


Ex. 25:30

On the Showbread before the Ark


Ex. 27:21

On kindling the Menorah by the Cohanim


Ex. 28:2

On the garments of the Cohanim


Ex. 28:28

Not to remove the Breastplate from the Ephod


Ex. 28:32

Make not any incision in Cohen haGadol's upper garment


Ex. 29:33

A Cohen not to eat First Fruits outside Temple courts


Ex. 29:33

On Cohanim eating the meat of Sin and Guilt Offerings


Ex. 30:7

On Burning the Incense on the Golden Altar twice daily


Ex. 30:9

Offer nothing, but specified incense, on Golden Altar


Ex. 30:12

On every male giving half a shekel annually to Temple


Ex. 30:19

On Cohanim washing hands & feet before entering Temple


Ex. 30:31

On the holy anointing oil


Ex. 30:32

Anoint none with special oil except Cohen Gadol & King


Ex. 30:32

Not to make any oil the same as the Oil of Anointment


Ex. 30:37

Not to make incense same as burnt on Altar in Sanctuary


Ex. 34:20

On Redeeming the firstling of an ass, if not...


Ex. 34:21

On resting the land on the Sabbatical year


Ex. 34:23

On appearing before YHVH during the Festivals (Deuteronomy 16:16)


Ex. 34:25

Slaughter not Pesach/Passover lamb if chametz is about


Ex. 34:26

Not to eat young male goat cooked in its mother's milk


Ex. 35:3

Not to inflict punishment on the Shabbat


Lev. 1:2

On the Burnt-Offering


Lev. 2:1

On the Meal-Offering


Lev. 2:11

Not to offer leaven or honey upon the Altar


Lev. 2:13

Not to offer a sacrifice without salt


Lev. 2:13

On bringing salt with every offering


Lev. 3:1

On the Peace-Offering


Lev. 4:13

On offerings for a Court (Sanhedrin) that has erred


Lev. 4:27

Fixed Sin-Offering, by one unknowingly breaking a karet


Lev. 5:1

Anyone aware of evidence must come to court to testify


Lev. 5:8

Not to split head of bird slaughtered for Sin-offering


Lev. 5:11

Not to put frankincense on the sin meal-offering


Lev. 5:11

Not to put olive oil on the sin meal-offering


Lev. 5:15

Unconditional Guilt-Offering, for stealing, etc.


Lev. 5:16

If benefit from Temple property, restitution plus 1/5th


Lev. 5:17

Suspensive Guilt-Offering if doubt of breaking a karet


Lev. 5:23

On a robber to restore the stolen article to its owner


Lev. 6:3

On removing the ashes from the Altar


Lev. 6:6

Not to extinguish the Altar fire


Lev. 6:6

On the perpetual fire on the Altar


Lev. 6:9

On Cohanim eating the remainder of the Meal Offerings


Lev. 6:10

Not to bake the residue of a meal offering with leaven


Lev. 6:13

On Cohen haGadol's twice daily meal offering


Lev. 6:16

Not to eat the Meal-offering of a Cohen


Lev. 6:18

On the Sin-Offering


Lev. 6:23

Eat not Sin-offering meat sacrificed within Sanctuary


Lev. 7:1

On the Guilt-Offering


Lev. 7:17

Burn remnant of Consecrated Offerings not eaten in time


Lev. 7:18

Eat not sacrificial meat slaughtered in wrong intention


Lev. 7:19

Burn Consecrated Offerings that've become tameh/unclean


Lev. 7:19

Eat not meat of consecrated things that've become tameh


Lev. 7:23

Not to eat certain types of fat of clean animal, chelev


Lev. 7:24

Not to eat blood


Lev. 10:6

Cohen wearing rent garments may not enter Sanctuary


Lev. 10:6

Cohen with disheveled hair may not enter the Sanctuary


Lev. 10:7

Cohanim leave not Temple courtyard during the service


Lev. 10:9

Drunk persons may not enter Sanctuary or teach Torah


Lev. 11:2

Searching for prescribed signs in beasts, for eating


Lev. 11:8

Defilement by touching certain animal carcasses, ...


Lev. 11:9

Searching for the prescribed signs in fish, for eating


Lev. 11:11

Not to eat any unclean fish


Lev. 11:13

Not to eat any unclean fowl


Lev. 11:21

Searching for prescribed signs in locusts, for eating


Lev. 11:29

...by touching carcasses of eight creeping creatures


Lev. 11:34

Defilement of food & drink, if contacting unclean thing


Lev. 11:41

Not to eat anything which creeps on the earth


Lev. 11:42

Not to eat living creatures that breed in seeds / fruit


Lev. 11:43

Not to eat any detestable creature


Lev. 11:44

Not to eat creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter


Lev. 12:2

On Tumah of a woman after childbirth


Lev. 12:3

On circumcising one's son


Lev. 12:4

Tameh (ritually unclean) person may not eat holy things


Lev. 12:6

On offering brought by a woman after childbirth


Lev. 13:3

On Tumah of a leper


Lev. 13:33

Not to shave a leprous scall


Lev. 13:45

On that the leper must be made easily distinguishable


Lev. 13:51

On garments contaminated by leprosy


Lev. 14:2

On the specified procedure of cleansing from leprosy


Lev. 14:9

On that a leper must shave his head


Lev. 14:10

On offering brought by a leper after being cleansed


Lev. 14:44

On a leprous house


Lev. 15:2

On Tumah of a zav (man with a running issue)


Lev. 15:6

On Tumah of semen


Lev. 15:13

On offering brought by a zav (man with a discharge)


Lev. 15:16

On immersing in a mikveh to become ritually clean


Lev. 15:19

On Tumah of a menstruant woman


Lev. 15:19

Tumah of a zavah (woman suffering from a running issue)


Lev. 15:28

Offering brought by a zavah (woman with a discharge)


Lev. 16:2

Cohen haGadol enter Sanctuary only at prescribed times


Lev. 16:29

On fasting on Yom Kippur


Lev. 16:29

On resting on Yom Kippur


Lev. 17:13

Covering with earth the blood of slain fowl and beast


Lev. 18:6

Not to be intimate with a kinswoman


Lev. 18:7

A man may not lie carnally with his father


Lev. 18:7

No relations with one's mother


Lev. 18:8

No relations with one's father's wife


Lev. 18:9

No relations with one's sister


Lev. 18:10

No relations with one's daughter


Lev. 18:10

No relations with one's daughter's daughter


Lev. 18:10

No relations with one's son's daughter


Lev. 18:11

No relations with step-sister


Lev. 18:12

No relations with one's father's sister


Lev. 18:13

No relations with one's mother's sister


Lev. 18:14

A man may not lie carnally with his father's brother


Lev. 18:14

No relations with wife of father's brother


Lev. 18:15

No relations with one's son's wife


Lev. 18:16

No relations with brother's wife


Lev. 18:17

No relations with a woman & her daughter's daughter


Lev. 18:17

No relations with a woman and her daughter


Lev. 18:17

No relations with a woman and her son's daughter


Lev. 18:18

No relations with sister of wife, during wife's life


Lev. 18:19

No relations with a menstruant


Lev. 18:20

No relations with another man's wife


Lev. 18:21

Not to hand over any children to Moloch


Lev. 18:22

A man may not lie carnally with another man


Lev. 18:23

Men may not lie with beasts


Lev. 18:23

Women may not lie with beasts


Lev. 19:3

On fearing parents


Lev. 19:4

Not to make an idol (even for others) to worship


Lev. 19:4

Not to study idolatrous practices


Lev. 19:9

Not to gather ears of grain that fell during harvesting


Lev. 19:9

On leaving gleanings of the field for the poor


Lev. 19:9

On leaving the corners (Peah) of fields for the poor


Lev. 19:10

Not to gather single fallen grapes during the vintage


Lev. 19:10

Not to gather the misformed clusters of grapes


Lev. 19:10

On leaving grape gleanings for the poor


Lev. 19:11

Not repudiating debts, denying receipt of loan/deposit


Lev. 19:11

Not stealing


Lev. 19:11

Not to swear falsely regarding another man's property


Lev. 19:12

Not violating an oath by the Holy Name, shevuas bittui


Lev. 19:13

Not robbing


Lev. 19:13

Not usurping our debts / do not defraud


Lev. 19:13

Oppress not an employee by delaying paying his wages


Lev. 19:14

Not misleading another by giving wrong advice


Lev. 19:14

Not to curse any Jew


Lev. 19:15

A Judge is not to commit unrighteousness


Lev. 19:15

A Judge is not to favor (be partial to) a litigant


Lev. 19:15

A Judge not to decide in favor of poor man, out of pity [rather]


Lev. 19:15

Treating litigants equally/impartially before the law


Lev. 19:16

Hesitate not to save life of another person in danger


Lev. 19:16

Not to tell tales


Lev. 19:17

Not to bear hatred in your heart toward your brethren


Lev. 19:17

Not to put one another to shame


Lev. 19:17

On being required to reprove the sinner


Lev. 19:18

Not to bear a grudge


Lev. 19:18

Not to take vengeance on another


Lev. 19:18

On love your neighbor as yourself


Lev. 19:19

Not to crossbreed animals of different species


Lev. 19:19

Not to sow diverse kinds of seed in one field, kalayim


Lev. 19:19

On leaving the misformed grape clusters for the poor


Lev. 19:23

Not to eat orlah


Lev. 19:24

On the fruits of the trees fourth year's growth


Lev. 19:26

Not practicing divination


Lev. 19:26

No eating or drinking to excess, gluttony & drunkenness


Lev. 19:27

Not shaving the temples/sides of your head


Lev. 19:27

Not shaving your beard


Lev. 19:28

Not tattoo yourself, as is the manner of the idolaters


Lev. 19:30

On respecting the Sanctuary


Lev. 19:31

Not to practice sorcery of the ov, necromancy


Lev. 19:31

Not to practice sorcery of yidde'oni, familiar spirits


Lev. 19:32

On honoring the old (and wise)


Lev. 19:35

Not cheating/defrauding with measurements & weights


Lev. 19:36

On the law of accurate weights and measures


Lev. 20:1

No figured stones (dias) to lay prostrate on


Lev. 20:14

On burning transgressors of certain commandments


Lev. 20:23

Imitate not the ways nor practice customs of idolaters


Lev. 21:1

Common Cohen must not be defiled for dead, except some


Lev. 21:6

Cohen who is tevul yom, not to minister in Sanctuary


Lev. 21:7

A Cohen marry not a woman profaned from the Priesthood


Lev. 21:7

A Cohen may not marry a divorcee


Lev. 21:7

A Cohen may not marry a harlot, zonah


Lev. 21:8

On honoring the Cohanim


Lev. 21:11

Cohen haGadol may not be under one roof with dead body


Lev. 21:11

Cohen haGadol must not be defiled for any dead person


Lev. 21:11

Nazir must not become tameh entering house with corpse


Lev. 21:13

On that Cohen haGadol may only marry a virgin


Lev. 21:14

Cohen haGadol may not marry a widow


Lev. 21:15

Cohen haGadol may not take a widow as a concubine


Lev. 21:17

Cohen with a blemish not to minister in the Sanctuary


Lev. 21:18

Cohen with temporary blemish minister not in Sanctuary


Lev. 21:23

Cohen with blemish enter not Temple, from Altar inwards


Lev. 22:2

Tameh (unclean) Cohen not to minister in Sanctuary


Lev. 22:4

Tameh (ritually unclean) Cohen may not eat terumah


Lev. 22:10

A Cohen's sojourner or hired worker may not eat terumah


Lev. 22:10

A zar/non-Cohen may not eat terumah / (heave offering)


Lev. 22:10

An uncircumcised person may not eat terumah


Lev. 22:12

Bat-Cohen if married to non-Cohen not to eat holy food


Lev. 22:15

Not eating untithed produce, tevel


Lev. 22:20

Dedicate not a blemished animal to be offered on Altar


Lev. 22:21

Not to cause a consecrated offering to become blemished


Lev. 22:21

On offering only unblemished sacrifices


Lev. 22:22

Not to burn the inner parts of blemished beast on Altar


Lev. 22:22

Not to slaughter a blemished animal as a korban


Lev. 22:24

Not to castrate a man or beast


Lev. 22:24

Not to dash the blood of a blemished beast on the Altar


Lev. 22:25

Not to offer a blemished sacrifice of a gentile


Lev. 22:27

On minimum age of cattle to be offered


Lev. 22:28

Not to slaughter an animal & its young on the same day


Lev. 22:30

No meat of Thanksgiving Offering to remain till morning


Lev. 22:32

Not profaning the Holy Name of God


Lev. 22:32

On Sanctifying God's Name


Lev. 23:10

On the second day of Pesach meal offering of the Omer


Lev. 23:14

Eat not bread made from grain of new crop, before Omer


Lev. 23:14

Eat not green ears of new crop, before Omer (Nisan 16)


Lev. 23:14

Eat not roasted grain of new crop, before Omer offering


Lev. 23:17

On the Two Loaves of bread Wave offering on Shavuot


Lev. 23:21

Not to work on Shavuot


Lev. 23:21

On resting on Shavuot


Lev. 23:22

Reap not a whole field without leaving corners for poor


Lev. 23:24

On resting on Rosh HaShannah


Lev. 23:25

Not to work on Rosh HaShannah


Lev. 23:28

Not to work on Yom Kippur / the Day of Atonement


Lev. 23:29

Not to eat anything on Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement


Lev. 23:35

Count the Omer 49 days from day of first sheaf (Nisan 16)


Lev. 23:35

Not to work on the first day of Sukkot


Lev. 23:35

On resting on the first day of Sukkot


Lev. 23:36

On resting on (the 8th day) Shemini Atzeret


Lev. 23:36

On the Pesach additional offering


Lev. 23:36

Work not 8th-day/Shemini-Atzeret, (after Hoshana Rabba)


Lev. 23:40

On taking a Lulav (the four species) on Sukkot


Lev. 23:42

On dwelling in a Sukkah (booth) for seven days


Lev. 24:16

Not blaspheming the Holy Name of God [rather]: Exodus 22:27


Lev. 25:4

Not to cultivate the soil in the 7th year, shemittah


Lev. 25:4

Not to prune the trees in the 7th year


Lev. 25:5

Gather not self-grown fruit in 7th yr. as ordinary year


Lev. 25:5

Reap not self-grown plant in 7th year as ordinary year


Lev. 25:8

Counting and announcing the years till the Jubilee year


Lev. 25:9

Blow Shofar on Yom Kippur in the Jubilee & slaves freed


Lev. 25:10

On sanctifying the Jubilee (50th) year


Lev. 25:11

Not to gather fruit in Jubilee year as in ordinary year


Lev. 25:11

Not to till the earth or prune trees in Jubilee year


Lev. 25:11

Reap not aftergrowths of Jubilee year as ordinary year


Lev. 25:14

Not wronging/deceiving one another in business


Lev. 25:14

On the law of buying and selling


Lev. 25:17

Not wronging/misleading one another even verbally


Lev. 25:23

Sell not one's Eretz Yisrael land holdings permanently


Lev. 25:24

On the redemption of a house within a year of the sale


Lev. 25:24

Reversion of the land to ancestral owners in Jubilee yr


Lev. 25:33

Not to sell/change the open lands of the Levites


Lev. 25:37

Not lending to another Jew at interest


Lev. 25:39

Not employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks


Lev. 25:42

Not selling a Hebrew bondman


Lev. 25:43

Not treating a Hebrew bondman cruelly


Lev. 25:46

On the laws for treating an alien bondman


Lev. 25:53

Not allowing a heathen to mistreat a Hebrew bondman


Lev. 27:10

Not to substitute sacrifices


Lev. 27:11

On the valuation for an unclean beast to the Temple


Lev. 27:14

On the valuation of a house as a donation to the Temple


Lev. 27:16

On the valuation of a field as a donation to the Temple


Lev. 27:21

(Cherem vow) one devoted thing to God, other to Cohanim


Lev. 27:26

Not to change sacrifices from one category to the other


Lev. 27:28

Not to redeem a devoted (by the Cherem vow) field


Lev. 27:28

Not to sell a devoted (by the Cherem vow) field


Lev. 27:30

To set aside the first tithe to the Levites


Lev. 27:32

On the Tithe of one's cattle


Lev. 27:33

Not to sell the tithe of the herd of cattle


Lev. 27:33

On the holiness of substituted animal offerings


Lev. 16:3-24

On the service of Yom Kippur, Avodah


Lev. 19:6-8

Not to eat sacrificial meat beyond the allotted time


Lev. 21:2-3

On the Cohanim being defiled for dead relatives


Lev. 27:2-8

On the valuation for a person himself to the Temple


Lev. 5:1-11

Offering higher or lower value, according to ones means


Num. 5:2

On removing unclean persons from the camp


Num. 5:3

Tameh (unclean) person not to enter any part of Temple


Num. 5:15

Not to put frankincense on the jealousy offering, sotah


Num. 5:15

Not to put olive oil on the jealousy offering, sotah


Num. 5:15

Suspected adulteress has to submit to the required test


Num. 6:3

A Nazir may not drink wine or any beverage from grapes


Num. 6:3

A Nazir may not eat dried grapes


Num. 6:3

A Nazir may not eat fresh grapes


Num. 6:4

A Nazir may not eat grape peels/husks


Num. 6:4

A Nazir may not eat grape seeds/kernels


Num. 6:5

A Nazir must not shave his hair


Num. 6:5

The Nazir letting his hair grow during his separation


Num. 6:7

Nazir may not rend himself tameh (unclean) for the dead


Num. 6:18

Nazir completing vow shaves his head & brings sacrifice


Num. 6:23

On the Cohanim blessing Israel


Num. 7:9

On Cohanim bearing the Ark on their shoulders


Num. 9:11

On eating the Pesach Sheini lamb with Matzah and Maror


Num. 9:11

On slaughtering the Pesach Sheini, Iyyar 14, offering


Num. 9:12

Not to break any bones of 2nd Pesach lamb offering


Num. 9:13

No meat of 2nd Pesach lamb Offering remain till morning


Num. 15:20

On the first portion of the Challah given to the Cohen


Num. 15:38

On making Tzitzit with thread of blue, garments corners


Num. 15:39

Not to follow one's heart or eyes, straying to impurity


Num. 18:3

Levites & Cohanim not to interchange in their functions


Num. 18:4

A Zar (non-Cohen) not to minister in Sanctuary


Num. 18:4

On guarding the Sanctuary


Num. 18:5

Be not lax in guarding the Sanctuary/(Temple)


Num. 18:17

Redeem not the firstborn of permitted (clean) animals


Num. 18:23

On Levitical services in the Tabernacle


Num. 18:26

On Levites' giving tenth of their tithe to the Cohanim


Num. 19:13

Law of the purification water of sprinkling, mei niddah


Num. 19:14

On Tumah of a human corpse


Num. 27:8

On the law of inheritance


Num. 28:3

On the twice Daily Burnt, tamid, offerings


Num. 28:9

On the Shabbat additional, musaf, offering


Num. 28:11

On the New Moon, Rosh Chodesh, additional offering


Num. 28:26

On the Shavuot additional, musaf, offering


Num. 29:1

On hearing the sound of the Shofar on Rosh HaShannah


Num. 29:13

On the Sukkot, musaf, offerings


Num. 29:36

On the Shemini Atzeret additional offering


Num. 30:3

Not to break your word, even if without an oath


Num. 30:3

On that a judge can annul vows, only according to Torah


Num. 35:2

Give cities to Levites - who've no ancestral land share


Num. 35:12

Not killing a murderer without trial and conviction


Num. 35:25

On exile to city of refuge for unintentional homicide


Num. 35:30

A witness must not sit as a Judge in capital cases


Num. 35:31

Not accepting ransom from an unwitting murderer


Num. 35:32

Not accepting a ransom from a wilful murderer


Num. 10:9-10

Trumpets for Feast sacrifices brought & for tribulation


Num. 19:2-9

On Ashes of the Red Heifer, used in ritual purification


Num. 29:1-2

On the Rosh HaShannah additional offering


Num. 29:7-8

On the Yom Kippur additional offering


Num. 5:6-7

To confess one's sins before God and repent from them


Deut. 1:17

Judge not avoid justice being in fear of wicked person


Deut. 1:17

Not appointing an unlearned judge ignorant of the Torah


Deut. 5:18

Covet not one's possessions, even the desire forbidden


Deut. 6:4

To acknowledge the Unity of God


Deut. 6:5

To love God


Deut. 6:7

On reciting the Sh'ma each morning and evening


Deut. 6:7

On studying and teaching Torah


Deut. 6:8

On binding Tefillin on the hand


Deut. 6:8

On binding Tefillin on the head


Deut. 6:9

On affixing a Mezuzah to doorposts and gates


Deut. 6:13

To fear God


Deut. 6:16

Not testing/trying His (YHVH God) promises & warnings


Deut. 7:2

Not to show mercy to idolaters


Deut. 7:3

Not to intermarry with one serving false gods


Deut. 7:21

Not fearing the enemy in time of war


Deut. 7:25

No benefit from ornaments which have adorned an idol


Deut. 7:26

Do not use anything connected with idols or idolatry


Deut. 8:10

On praising God after eating, Grace after meals


Deut. 10:19

On being commanded to love the convert/proselyte


Deut. 10:20

On taking an oath by God's Name


Deut. 10:20

To cleave to God


Deut. 11:13

To serve God


Deut. 12:2

On destroying all idolatry and its appurtenances


Deut. 12:4

Do not destroy houses of worship or holy books


Deut. 12:13

Offer not sacrifices outside Sanctuary/(Temple) Court


Deut. 12:14

All offerings must be brought only to the Sanctuary


Deut. 12:15

On Redeeming blemished sanctified animal offerings


Deut. 12:17

A zar/non-Cohen is not to eat the most holy offerings


Deut. 12:17

Consume not unredeemed 2nd oil tithe outside Jerusalem


Deut. 12:17

Consume not unredeemed 2nd wine tithe outside Jerusalem


Deut. 12:17

Eat not an unblemished firstling outside Yerushalayim


Deut. 12:17

Eat not lesser sacrifices before blood dashed on Altar


Deut. 12:17

Eat not sin or guilt offerings outside Sanctuary court


Deut. 12:17

Eat not unredeemed 2nd corn tithe outside Yerushalayim


Deut. 12:17

Not to eat the meat of the burnt offering at all


Deut. 12:19

Not to leave the Levites without support


Deut. 12:21

Slaughtering animals, according to Torah, before eating


Deut. 12:23

Not to eat any limb taken from a living animal


Deut. 12:36

On offerings due from outside Israel to the Sanctuary


Deut. 13:1

Not to add to the Mitzvot/commandments of Torah


Deut. 13:1

Not to detract from the Mitzvot/commandments of Torah


Deut. 13:5

To serve God


Deut. 13:8

Not to love someone who seeks to mislead you to idols


Deut. 13:9

Not to oppress evidence unfavorable to the misleader


Deut. 13:9

Not to plead for (defend) the misleader to idols


Deut. 13:9

Not to relax one's aversion to the misleader to idols


Deut. 13:9

Not to save the life of a misleader to idols


Deut. 13:15

The testimony of witnesses shall be examined thoroughly


Deut. 13:17

Rebuild not a city destroyed as punishment for idolatry


Deut. 13:17

The law about a city that has become apostate/perverted


Deut. 13:18

Not deriving benefit from property of an apostate city


Deut. 14:1

Not to tear out hair for the dead


Deut. 14:3

Not to eat consecrated animals that've become blemished


Deut. 14:7

Not to eat any unclean animal


Deut. 14:11

Searching for the prescribed signs in birds, for eating


Deut. 14:19

Not to eat any creeping winged insect


Deut. 14:21

Not to eat any animal which died naturally, a nevelah


Deut. 14:22

To set aside the second tithe, eaten only in Jerusalem


Deut. 14:28

To set aside the poor-man's tithe in 3rd and 6th year


Deut. 15:2

Not to demand payment of debts after (7th) Shmitah year


Deut. 15:3

...one may exact a debt owed by a foreigner


Deut. 15:3

All debts are annulled in the Sabbatical year, but...


Deut. 15:7

Not to deny charity to the poor


Deut. 15:8

On to give charity to the poor (Leviticus25:35-36)


Deut. 15:9

Not to refuse loan to poor because Shmitah year is near


Deut. 15:13

Not sending a Hebrew bondman away empty-handed


Deut. 15:14

On giving gifts to a Hebrew bondman upon his freedom


Deut. 15:19

Not to do any work with a dedicated beast


Deut. 15:19

Not to shear a dedicated beast


Deut. 16:1

Not making cuttings in your flesh over your dead


Deut. 16:1

Sanhedrin to sanctify New Moon, & reckon years & seasons


Deut. 16:3

Not to eat chametz, leaven(ed), after noon of 14 Nisan


Deut. 16:4

No meat of Nisan 14 Festive Offering remain till day 3


Deut. 16:14

On rejoicing on the Festivals


Deut. 16:18

Appointing Judges & Officers of the Court in every town


Deut. 16:21

Not to plant trees in the Sanctuary/Temple


Deut. 16:22

Not to erect a pillar which people assemble to honor


Deut. 17:1

Not to sacrifice a beast with a temporary blemish


Deut. 17:11

Not to differ from or disobey the Cohanim and the Judge


Deut. 17:11

On obeying the Great Court (Sanhedrin)


Deut. 17:15

Not appointing a king who is not of the seed of Israel


Deut. 17:15

On appointing a king


Deut. 17:16

A king not to accumulate an excess number of horses


Deut. 17:16

Not returning to Egypt to dwell there permanently


Deut. 17:17

A king not amassing great personal wealth


Deut. 17:17

A king not taking many wives


Deut. 17:18

On that a king must write a copy of Torah for himself


Deut. 18:1

Levites have not part in the division of Israel's land


Deut. 18:1

Levites share not in the spoils of war


Deut. 18:3

The Cohen's due in the slaughter of every clean animal


Deut. 18:4

On the first of the fleece to be given to the Cohen


Deut. 18:4

To separate the great Heave-offering (terumah)


Deut. 18:10

Not consulting a necromancer who uses the ov


Deut. 18:10

Not consulting a sorcerer who uses the ydo'a


Deut. 18:10

Not practicing enchanting


Deut. 18:10

Not practicing soothsaying


Deut. 18:10

Not practicing sorcery


Deut. 18:10

Not practicing divination


Deut. 18:11

Not practicing the art of the charmer


Deut. 18:11

Not to seek information from the dead, necromancy


Deut. 18:15

On heeding the Prophets


Deut. 18:20

Not prophesying falsely in the Name of God


Deut. 18:20

Not prophesying in the name of idols


Deut. 18:22

Not fearing or refraining from killing a false prophet


Deut. 19:3

On establishing Six Cities of Refuge


Deut. 19:13

Judge not to pity one who killed or caused loss of limb


Deut. 19:14

Not fraudulently altering land boundaries / landmarker


Deut. 19:15

Not convicting on the testimony of a single witness


Deut. 19:19

False witnesses punished, as they intended upon accused


Deut. 19:19

On condemning witnesses who testify falsely


Deut. 20:2

Cohen for special duties in war; also men unfit return


Deut. 20:11

Regulations for wars other than ones commanded in Torah


Deut. 20:16

Not to spare the life of the Seven Canaanite Nations


Deut. 20:17

On the law about destroying the seven Canaanite nations


Deut. 20:19

Not destroying fruit trees, even in time of war


Deut. 21:4

On Eglah Arufah, on the heifer when murderer unknown


Deut. 21:4

Plow not a valley where slain body found, eglah arufah


Deut. 21:11

Captive women treated according to special regulations


Deut. 21:14

Not selling a captive woman


Deut. 21:14

Not treating a captive woman as a slave


Deut. 21:20

No eating or drinking to excess, gluttony & drunkenness


Deut. 21:22

Hang after execution, violators of certain commandments


Deut. 21:23

Leave not body of executed criminal hanging overnight


Deut. 21:23

On burial on the same day of execution


Deut. 22:1

Exodus 23:4 On that lost property must be returned to its owner


Deut. 22:3

Not ignoring lost property to be returned to its owner


Deut. 22:4

On assisting a man loading his beast with its burden


Deut. 22:5

Men not wearing women's clothes or adornments


Deut. 22:5

Women not to wear men's clothes or adornments


Deut. 22:6

Not to take entire bird's nest, mother and her young


Deut. 22:7

On setting free the parent bird when taking the nest


Deut. 22:8

Build fence on roof, remove potential hazards from home


Deut. 22:8

Not leaving obstacles on public or private domain


Deut. 22:9

Eat not growth of mixed vineyard planting,kilai hakerem


Deut. 22:9

Not to sow grain or vegetables in a vineyard


Deut. 22:10

Work not with two different kinds of animals together


Deut. 22:11

Not wearing a mixture of wool and linen, Shatnes


Deut. 22:18

The defamer of his bride is flogged & may never divorce


Deut. 22:19

Divorce not wife, after falsely slandering her


Deut. 22:24

On stoning transgressors of certain commandments


Deut. 22:26

Not punishing a person for a sin committed under duress


Deut. 22:29

A violator must marry the virgin/maiden he has violated


Deut. 22:29

Divorce not wife, that he has to marry after raping her


Deut. 23:2

Man unable of procreation (eunuch) not to marry Jewess


Deut. 23:3

A mamzer may not have relations with a Jewess


Deut. 23:4

Not to intermarry at all with a male from Ammon or Moav


Deut. 23:7

Not permitted to make peace with Ammon and Moav nations


Deut. 23:8

Exclude not marrying a descendant Esau if a proselyte


Deut. 23:8

Not to exclude marrying an Egyptian who is a proselyte


Deut. 23:11

Tameh person enter not camp of Levites (Temple mount)


Deut. 23:14

Prepare place beyond the camp, so to keep sanitary ...


Deut. 23:15

...so include a digging tool among war implements


Deut. 23:16

Not handing over a slave who's fled to Israel


Deut. 23:17

Take no advantage of a slave who's fled to Israel


Deut. 23:18

No relations (harlotry) with a woman outside marriage


Deut. 23:19

Offer not on Altar: hire of harlot or price of dog


Deut. 23:20

Not borrowing from another Jew at interest


Deut. 23:21

On lending money to the foreigner with interest


Deut. 23:22

Delay not payment of offerings, freewill or obligatory


Deut. 23:24

A hired laborer not to take more fruit than he can eat


Deut. 23:24

On that a man must honor his oral vows and oaths


Deut. 23:25

Employee is allowed to eat the produce he's working in


Deut. 23:26

A worker is not to cut down standing grain during work


Deut. 24:1

On the law of marriage


Deut. 24:1

The law of divorce, only be means of written document


Deut. 24:4

Remarry not your divorced wife after she has remarried


Deut. 24:5

On bridegroom devoting himself to his wife for one year


Deut. 24:5

Take not bridegroom from home in first year of marriage


Deut. 24:6

Not taking ones's business (or food) utensils in pledge


Deut. 24:8

Not to cut or cauterize (remove) other signs of leprosy


Deut. 24:10

Not taking a pledge from a debtor by force


Deut. 24:12

Not keeping a poor man's pledge when he needs it


Deut. 24:13

Exodus22:25 On restoring a pledge to its owner if he needs it


Deut. 24:15

On paying the worker his wages on time


Deut. 24:16

A Judge receive not testimony from litigant's relatives


Deut. 24:17

A Judge not perverting justice due strangers or orphans


Deut. 24:17

Not taking any pledge from a widow


Deut. 24:19

Not to return for a forgotten sheaf


Deut. 24:19

On leaving the forgotten sheaf for the poor


Deut. 25:2

On whipping transgressors of certain commandments


Deut. 25:4

Muzzle not animal working field to prevent from eating


Deut. 25:5

Childless widow marry none except late husbands brother


Deut. 25:5

If a man dies childless his brother marry widow, or...


Deut. 25:9

...release her/the-widow (Chalitzah)


Deut. 25:12

Not to pity or spare the life of a pursuer


Deut. 25:12

Save life of one pursued, even if need - kill oppressor


Deut. 25:13

Not to possess false/inaccurate weights and measures


Deut. 25:17

On remembering the nefarious deeds of Amalek to Israel


Deut. 25:19

Not forgetting the evil which Amalek did to us


Deut. 25:19

On the extinction of the seed of Amalek


Deut. 26:5

A declaration made bringing First-fruits to the Temple


Deut. 26:13

A declaration made when separating the various tithes


Deut. 26:14

Eat not unredeemed 2nd tithe while in state of impurity


Deut. 26:14

Not eating the 2nd tithe while in mourning


Deut. 26:14

On 2nd tithe redemption money (only for food and drink)


Deut. 28:9

On walking in God's ways


Deut. 31:12

On Assembling each 7th year to hear the Torah read


Deut. 31:19

On that everyone should have a Torah scroll


Deut. 32:38

Not to use wine libations for idols, yayin nesach


Deut. 12:5-6

On bringing due offerings to Jerusalem without delay


Deut. 13:12-13

Not to try to persuade a Jew to worship idols


Deut. 13:3-4

Listen not to one who prophesies in the name of idols


Deut. 18:6-8

On the Cohanim ministering in rotation/watches


Deut. 25:2-3

Inflict not more than assigned number lashes to guilty

 

 

 

The 248 Positive Mitzvot/Commandments: "The Do's"

RELATIONSHIP TO GOD

TORAH

TEMPLE AND THE PRIESTS

SACRIFICES

VOWS

RITUAL PURITY

DONATIONS TO THE TEMPLE

THE SABBATICAL YEAR

CONCERNING ANIMALS FOR CONSUMPTION

FESTIVALS

COMMUNITY

IDOLATRY

WAR

SOCIAL

FAMILY

JUDICIAL

SLAVES

TORTS

The 365 Negative Mitzvot/Commandments: "The Don'ts"

IDOLATRY AND RELATED PRACTICES

PROHIBITIONS RESULTING FROM HISTORICAL EVENTS

BLASPHEMY

TEMPLE

SACRIFICES

PRIESTS

DIETARY LAWS

NAZIRITES

AGRICULTURE

LOANS, BUSINESS, AND THE TREATMENT OF SLAVES

JUSTICE

INCEST AND OTHER FORBIDDEN RELATIONSHIPS

THE MONARCHY

 

In addition to Yeshua’s teaching on the Law of Moses in places like Mat 5-7, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+5-7&version=KJV, there are also many New Testament commands in the Epistles, such as the following:

1 Thessalonians 4-5

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

16 Rejoice evermore.

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

19 Quench not the Spirit.

20 Despise not prophesyings.

21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

25 Brethren, pray for us.

26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

 

2 Thessalonians 3

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

 

Galatians 5 - 6

13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

For every man shall bear his own burden.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

 

 

Ephesians 4

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27 Neither give place to the devil.

28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

 

 

Philippians 2, 4

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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;

16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

 

 

Colossians 3 - 4

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

 

Romans 12

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

13 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

14 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

15 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.

23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.

27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

 

Hebrews 12

12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

29 For our God is a consuming fire.

13 Let brotherly love continue.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

 

 

 

 

James 1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

 

 

1 Peter 1

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.

And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

 

 

2 Peter 1

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

 

 

1 John 2

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.