John 14:15
Teaching on the Holy Spirit
14:15 “If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
John 14:23-24
14:23 Jesus replied,
“If anyone loves me, he will obey
my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
14:24 The person who does not love me does not obey
my words. And the word
you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
John 15:14
15:14 You are my friends
if you do what I command you.
Genesis 26:3-5
26:3 Stay
in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you,
for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants,
and I will fulfill
the solemn promise I made
to your father Abraham.
26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them
all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
26:5 All this will come to pass
because Abraham obeyed me
and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
An Exhortation to Love Both God and People
10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,
10:13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?
Deuteronomy 11:13
11:13 Now, if you pay close attention
to my commandments that I am giving you today and love
the
Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,
Deuteronomy 30:6-8
30:6 The
Lord your God will also cleanse
your heart and the hearts of your descendants
so that you may love him
with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
30:7 Then the
Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.
30:8 You will return and obey the
Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving
you today.
Psalms 119:4-6
119:4 You demand that your precepts
be carefully kept.
119:5 If only I were predisposed
to keep your statutes!
119:6 Then I would not be ashamed,
if I were focused on all your commands.
Jeremiah 31:31
31:31 “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
Jeremiah 31:33-34
31:33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel
after I plant them back in the land,”
says the
Lord.
“I will
put my law within them
and write it on their hearts and minds.
I will be their God and they will be my people.
31:34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
Ezekiel 36:25-27
36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water
and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone
from your body and give you a heart of flesh.
36:27 I will put my Spirit within you;
I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes
and carefully observe my regulations.
Luke 11:28
11:28 But he replied,
“Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey
it!”
Luke 11:2
11:2 So he said to them, “When you pray,
say:
Father, may your name be honored;
may your kingdom come.
Colossians 1:14-15
1:14 in whom we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sins.
The Supremacy of Christ
1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
James 2:23-24
2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “
Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,”
and
he was called God’s friend.
2:24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
James 2:1
Prejudice and the Law of Love
2:1 My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
James 2:5
2:5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters!
Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
James 3:18
3:18 And the fruit that consists of righteousness
is planted
in peace among
those who make peace.
James 5:3
5:3 Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
James 5:2
5:2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
James 1:6
1:6 But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.
Revelation 22:14
22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.