Old Testament

• The Ten Commandments, or Ethical Decalog(ue), are a list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to Biblical tradition, were written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. The phrase "Ten Commandments" generally refers to the very similar passages in Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. These are listed above on this web page.
• In Biblical criticism, the Ritual Decalogue is one of the two very different lists within the Torah that are known as the Decalogue or Ten Commandments - the name decalogue merely means ten sayings. The Ritual Decalogue is the list of commandments in Exodus 34.
• The Covenant Code, or alternatively Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus 21:2 - 23:33. Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes given to Moses, by Yahweh, at Mount Sinai.
• The Priestly Code is mainly found in the first part of Leviticus and was written by priests, who among other things, were interested in making Jerulsalem the religious center of Judaism and discrediting priests of the Kingdom of Israel. It is a competing alternative to the Covenant Code. It is generally ignored by Christians.
• The Holiness Code is a term used in Biblical Criticism to refer to Leviticus 17-26 and is consistent with and supplements the Priestly Code.

New Testament

Mark 1: 17

Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

Mark 3:25

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Mark 3:35

For whoever shall do the will of God is my brother, my sister and my mother.

Mark 6:24

But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?

Mark 9: 35

He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Mark 12: 28-31 (note the first commandment here is from Deuteronomy 6:4,5)

One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him "Which commandment is the first of all?" Jesus answered, "the first is, 'Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is this, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

Note 1: Mark actually appears in the Bible after Matthew, but the verses here are listed before Matthew as a reminder that it was the first Gospel written.

Note 2: The parables of Jesus are treated HERE.

 Matthew 5: 1-12 -the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount- (another less famous version in Luke 6)

When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.

Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying:

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

 

Matthew 5: 14-16

You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under a bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5: 38

You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also;

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 6: 9-13 "The Lord's Prayer"

Our Father in heaven

Hallowed be your name.

Your Kingdom come.

Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.

Matthew 6: 24

No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given you.

Matthew 7:1 (alternative is Luke 6:37) Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Matthew 9:37

The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

Matthew 11:28-30

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart' and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 16: 26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose their soul?

Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 19:26 (alternative is Luke 1:37)

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Matthew 22:36 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Matthew 22:38 You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 25: 35-45

I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me. Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord when was it that we did these things for you?' And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.

Matthew 28:20 I am with you always, to the close of the age.

Luke 6:31 Do unto others as you would have them do to you.

Luke 10:25-37: The parable of the good Samaritan. Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.

Luke 18: 15-17 (alternative is Matthew 18:1-6)

People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

John 2:15-16

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

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

John 5:24

Verily, Verily I say unto you: He that heareth my word, and believeth of him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

John 8:7 ...let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone...

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

John 8:31-2

Then Jesus said to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."

John 11: 25-26

Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die."

John 14:3

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth and the life, No one comes to the Father but by me."

John 15:12-15

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's own life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do as I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have mad known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. [this passage may be where the Religious Society of Friends gets its name]

John 18: 36

My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight...

Accounts of Christ's birth Matthew 2, Luke 2

Accounts of the Crucifixion Mark 15, Matthew 27, Luke 23, John 19

Accounts of the Resurrection Mark 16, Matthew 28, Luke 24, John 20

Acts 9: Paul on the Road to Damascus

I Corinthians 3:16

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

I Corinthians 13: 1-2

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

I Corinthians 13: 4-7

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

I Corinthians 13: 11-13

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

II Corinthians 3: 6

Our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new convenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

II Corinthians 4:18

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

II Corinthians 9:7

Every man according to his own heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31 If God is for us, who is against us?

Romans 8:38

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present. nor things to come, nor anything else, in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.

Philippians 1:13,14

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press on toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Phillippians 2:12b Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil.

II Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and a sound mind.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Hebrews 13:2

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

James 1:6

But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

James 2:17 So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

James 4:1 [George Fox used this verse when asked to be a Captain for Cromwell's troops]

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? (see also Mark 7: 14-23)

I John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:8

God is Love.

Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

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