• Commands To Obey
• Our final lesson in this series.

• Introduction
• There are over 1,000 commands in the New Testament for Christians to obey.
• They cover every phase of man's life in his relationship to God and his fellowmen, now and hereafter.
• If obeyed, they will bring rich rewards here and forever.
• If disobeyed, they will bring condemnation and eternal punishment.

• Abhor what is evil (ROMANS 12:9)
• Abide in Christ (JOHN 15:4)
• Abide with worthy ones (MATTHEW 10:11-13; MARK 6:10; LUKE 9:4; LUKE 10:5-8)
• Accuse none falsely (LUKE 3:14)
• Add to Christian graces (2 PETER 1:5-7)
• Admit your own unprofitableness [Humility](LUKE 17:10)
• Admonish one another (COLOSSIANS 3:16)
• Admonish the unruly (2 THESSALONIANS 3:15)
• Allow no liberty to ensnare you to commit sin (1 CORINTHIANS 10:25-30)
• Allow no lust of evil in the your body (1 THESSALONIANS 4:5)
• Allow no cursing and blessing from the same mouth (JAMES 3:10)
• Arm your self with a mind to suffer for Christ (1 PETER 4:1)
• Avenge not yourself (ROMANS 12:19)
• Awake from death to light (EPHESIANS 5:14)
• Bear one another's burdens (GALATIANS 6:2)
• Behave like men (1 CORINTHIANS 16:13)
• Bid no false teacher "Godspeed" (2 JOHN 10-11)
• Bring proof of your repentance (MATTHEW 3:8; LUKE 3:8)
• Bring your children up in the Lord (EPHESIANS 6:4)
• Build up your faith (JUDE 20)
• Call the poor to your feast (LUKE 14:13)
• Children, obey your parents (EPHESIANS 6:1; COLOSSIANS 3:20)
• Cleanse your hands you sinners (JAMES 4:8)
• Cleave to good (ROMANS 12:9)
• Collect just dues only (LUKE 3:13)
• Come out from among them (2 CORINTHIANS 6:17)
• Command and teach these things (1 TIMOTHY 4:11; 1 TIMOTHY 6:2)
• Commit the truth to faithful teachers (2 TIMOTHY 2:2)
• Confess your faults one to another (JAMES 5:16)
• Count it joy when you are tempted (JAMES 1:2)
• Cut off offending members (MATTHEW 5:29-30; MATTHEW 18:8,9)
• Defraud not (MARK 10:19)
• Desire spiritual gifts (1 CORINTHIANS 14:1)
• Desire the milk of the Word (1 PETER 2:2)
• Draw near to God (JAMES 4:8)
• Eat your own bread in quietness (2 THESSALONIANS 3:12)
• Earnestly contend for faith (JUDE 3)
• Edify yourselves with singing (EPHESIANS 5:19)
• Edify one another (1 THESSALONIANS 5:11)
• Enter the straight (narrow) gate (MATTHEW 7:13; LUKE 13:24)
• Examine yourself as to faith (2 CORINTHIANS 13:5)
• Exercise in godliness (1 TIMOTHY 4:7-8)
• Exhort one another daily (HEBREWS 3:13)
• Fear not (LUKE 12:32)!
• Fight the good fight of faith (1 TIMOTHY 6:12)
• Follow peace and holiness (HEBREWS 12:14)
• Forbear one another (COLOSSIANS 3:13)
• Forbid not tongues (1 CORINTHIANS 14:39)
• Forget not to share (HEBREWS 13:16)
• Forgive (MARK 11:25-26; LUKE 6:37; EPHESIANS 4:32; COLOSSIANS 3:13; Matthew 18:22)
• Fret not in servitude (2 CORINTHIANS 7:21)
• Gird up loins of mind (1 PETER 1:13)
• Give place to wrath (ROMANS 12:19)
• Give your enemy a drink of water (ROMANS 12:20)
• Give no occasion to the adversary (1 TIMOTHY 5:14)
• Glorify God in your body and spirit (1 CORINTHIANS 6:20; cp. ROMANS 12:1-2)
• Grieve not the Holy Spirit (EPHESIANS 4:30)
• Grow in grace and knowledge (2 PETER 3:18)
• Grudge not against another (JAMES 5:9)
• Harden not your hearts (HEBREWS 3:8-15)
• Hate flesh-spotted garments (JUDE 23)
• Have no respect of persons (partiality, preju¬dice) (1 TIMOTHY 5:21)
• Have the same love (PHILIPPIANS 2:2)
• Have no fellowship with works of darkness (EPHESIANS 5:11)
• Heal the sick (MATTHEW 10:8; LUKE 10:9)
• Help propagate truth (3 JOHN 8)
• Humble yourselves (JAMES 4:10; 1 PETER 5:6)
• Husbands, love your wives (EPHESIANS 5:25,28; COLOSSIANS 3:19; 1 PETER 3:7)
• Husbands, be not bitter against your wives (COLOSSIANS 3:19)
• Judge not (MATTHEW 7:1; LUKE 6:37)
• Have faith before God for things not con¬demned in Scripture (ROMANS 14:22-23)
• Know how to control your body (1 THESSALONIANS 4:4)
• Lay not up your treasures on earth (MATTHEW 6:19)
• Lay up your treasures in heaven (MATTHEW 6:20; LUKE 12:33-34)
• Lay hold on eternal life (1 TIMOTHY 6:12)
• Lend, hoping for nothing back (LUKE 6:35)
• Lie not (COLOSSIANS 3:9)
• Lift up hands that hang down (HEBREWS 12:12)
• Look diligently not to fail of grace (HEBREWS 12:15)
• Look diligently lest any root of bitterness defile (HEBREWS 12:15)
• Look diligently lest any be a fornicator (HEBREWS 12:16-17)
• Look to yourselves not to lose reward (2 JOHN 8)
• Look for mercy unto eternal life (JUDE 21)
• Lust not after evil things (1 CORINTHIANS 10:6)
• Make no provision for lusts (ROMANS 13:14)
• Make straight paths (HEBREWS 12:13)
• Mark troublemakers (ROMANS 16:17; PHILIPPIANS 3:17)
• Mark the unruly (2 THESSALONIANS 3:14)
• Marvel not if you are hated by the world (1 JOHN 3:13)
• Masters, be good to servants (EPHESIANS 6:9; COLOSSIANS 4:1)
• Mind not the high things (ROMANS 12:16)
• Minister as good stewards (1 PETER 4:10)
• Mortify offending physical members (COLOSSIANS 3:5; ROMANS 8:12-13)
• Neither be of doubtful mind (LUKE 12:29)
• No man is to defraud his brother (1 THESSALONIANS 4:6)
• Neglect not spiritual gifts (1 TIMOTHY 4:14; cp. 2 TIMOTHY 1:6)
• Obey your leaders (HEBREWS 13:17)
• Offer the other cheek (MATTHEW 5:39; LUKE 6:29)
• Ordain no one in a hurry (1 TIMOTHY 5:22)
• Owe nothing but love (ROMANS 13:8)
• Overcome evil with good (ROMANS 12:21)
• Pass the time in fear (1 PETER 1:17)
• Pay your taxes (ROMANS 13:6)
• Pay just dues (ROMANS 13:7)
• Praise the Lord (ROMANS 15:11)
• Preach (MATTHEW 10:7,27; MARK 16:15; 2 TIMOTHY 4:2)
• Present your body to God (ROMANS 12:1)
• Provide things honestly (ROMANS 12:17)
• Provoke not your children to wrath (EPHESIANS 6:4; COLOSSIANS 3:21)
• Purge out the old leaven (evil influence) (1 CORINTHIANS 5:7)
• Purify your hearts of doubt (JAMES 4:8)
• Quench not the Spirit (1 THESSALONIANS 5:19)
• Receive (accept) weak brethren (ROMANS 14:1)
• Receive one another (ROMANS 15:7)
• Receive the Word with meekness (JAMES 1:21)
• Reckon yourself as dead to sin (ROMANS 6:11)
• Reckon yourself as alive to God (ROMANS 6:11)
• Recognize the truth (1 CORINTHIANS 10:15)
• Redeem the time (EPHESIANS 5:16; COLOSSIANS 4:5)
• Reject heretics (TITUS 3:10)
• Remind people of the seven things of TITUS 3:1-2.
• Render no evil for evil (1 PETER 3:9; ROMANS 12:17)
• Repent (MATTHEW 3:2; MATTHEW 4:17; MARK 1:15; ACTS 2:38; ACTS 3:19; REVELATION 2:16;REVELATION 3:19)
• Resist the devil (JAMES 4:7; 1 PETER 5:9)
• Restore backslider in meekness, considering your own life (GALATIANS 6:1)
• Run to obtain (1 CORINTHIANS 9:24)
• Salute your leaders (HEBREWS 13:24)
• Sanctify God in your heart (1 PETER 3:15)
• Save some with fear (JUDE 23)
• Search the Scriptures (JOHN 5:39)
• Seek not eats and drinks (LUKE 12:29)
• Sell to help the needy (LUKE 12:33)
• Serve the Lord (ROMANS 12:1)
• Servants, obey masters (EPHESIANS 6:5-8; COLOSSIANS 3:22-25; 1 PETER 2:18)
• Set the least to judge (1 CORINTHIANS 6:4)
• Set your affections above (COLOSSIANS 3:2)
• Show yourself as a pattern (TITUS 2:7)
• Show four things of TITUS 2:7-8.
• Sin not (1 CORINTHIANS 15:34)
• Sing with grace in heart (COLOSSIANS 3:16)
• Shun vain babblings (2 TIMOTHY 2:16)
• Speak and do things in view of the judgment day (JAMES 2:12)
• Speak truth (EPHESIANS 4:25)
• Speak sound doctrine (TITUS 2:1)
• Speak no evil of your brethren (JAMES 4:11)
• Strengthen your feeble knees (HEBREWS 12:12)
• Strive together for the gospel faith (PHILEMON 27)
• Study (be diligent) to show yourself approved (2 TIMOTHY 2:15)
• Support the weak (1 THESSALONIANS 5:14)
• See that no one renders evil for evil (1 THESSALONIANS 5:15)
• Swear not (JAMES 5:12; MATTHEW 5:33-36)
• Tarry one for another (1 CORINTHIANS 11:33)
• Teach one another (COLOSSIANS 3:16)
• Teach no other doctrine that the truth (1 TIMOTHY 1:3)
• Tell your brother his fault alone first (MATTHEW 18:15-17)
• Trust God for your needs as you work (MATTHEW 10:9; LUKE 9:3; LUKE 10:4)
• Understand the will of God (EPHESIANS 5:17)
• Use not your liberty as an occasion to sin (GALATIANS 5:13; 1 PETER 1:16)
• Warn the unruly (1 THESSALONIANS 5:14)
• Watch and pray (MATTHEW 24:42; MATTHEW 25:13; MARK 13:33,35; MARK 14:38; LUKE 21:36;EPHESIANS 6:18; COLOSSIANS 4:2)
• Weep with others (ROMANS 12:15)
• Withdraw from disorderly brethren (2 THESSALONIANS 3:6,14)
• Withdraw from evil people (1 TIMOTHY 6:3-6)
• Work with your own hands (1 THESSALONIANS 4:11)
• Work, or do not eat (2 THESSALONIANS 3:10-11)
• Work out own salvation (PHILIPPIANS 2:12)
• Yield not your members to sin (ROMANS 6:13)
• Yield yourself to God (ROMANS 6:13)
• Yield your members to righteousness (ROMANS 6:13)

• Conclusion
• With this lesson, we have covered over 1000 commands of the New Testament.
• Do you remember them all?
• Neither did I.
• That is why it is so important to learn these things.
• In the end, we will be without excuse.
• We either did the commands or we didn’t.
• It is time to get busy.

By Carey Scott from a list by Fennis Jennings Dake

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