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COMMANDMENTS.

"'Master, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?' He answered, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. That is the greatest commandment. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself. Everything in the Law and the prophets hangs on these two commandments.'"  (Matt 22:36  40 NEB).

THE LOVE OF GOD AND HIS SON.
"The man who has received my commands and obeys them     he it is who loves me; and  he who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him and disclose myself to him."  (John 14:21 NEB).

"As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Dwell in my love. If you heed my commands, you will dwell in my love, as I have heeded my Father's commands and dwell in His love."  (John 15:9,10 NEB).

"For this is what the love of God means, that we observe His commandments;  and yet His commandments are not burdensome."  (1 John 5:3).

"This is His command: to give our allegiance to His Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he commanded. When we keep His commands we dwell in Him and He dwells in us. And this is how we can make sure that He dwells within us: we know it from the Spirit He has given us."  (1 John 3:23,24 NEB).

"Here is the test by which we can make sure that we know (The Christ): do we keep his commands? The man who says, 'I know him', while he disobeys his commands, is a liar and a stranger to the truth;  but in the man who is obedient to his word, the Divine love has indeed come to its perfection."  (1 John 2:3-5 NEB).

LOVE FOR OUR BROTHERS.
"I give you a new commandment: love one another; as I have loved you, so you are to love one another. If there is this love among you, then all will know that you are my disciples."  (John 13:34,35 NEB).

"If anyone makes the statement: "I love God," and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should be loving his brother also."  (1 John 4:20,21).

"Do not think I am giving a new command; I am recalling the one we have had before us from the beginning: let us love one another. And love means following the commands of God. This  is  the  command which was given you from the beginning, to be your rule of life."  (From 2 John V.5,6 NEB).

THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.
Concerning those following the teachings of men rather than those of God, The Christ said:
"'Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites in these words: "This people pays Me lip-service, but their heart is far from Me:  their worship of Me is in vain, for they teach as doctrines the commandments of men." You neglect the commandment (1) of God, in order to maintain the tradition (2) of men.'"  (From Mark 7:6-8 NEB).



(1)

COMMANDMENT:

A Divine injunction as to moral conduct.
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TRADITIONS:

Long established practices or customs
handed down through the generations.

 

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