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By Weston Elliot Strickler

Practice ChristianityThe Instructions, Commandments, and Teachings of Jesus

This handout includes the three synoptic gospels; Mark, Luke, and Mathew, the non-synoptic gospel of

John, and also the gospel of Thomas. In this handout I am focusing upon statements, commandments,

and teachings that Jesus told us to do or not to do. I have divided this handout into various Practice

Divisions. There are, I am sure, more categorized divisions which I have not exhausted. I have included

the number of training commandments per division below the section title to help us compare and

contrast the differing focuses and emphasis of the various gospels. At the beginning of each gospel I

have also included a list ofJesus sayings that exonerate practice. I have used the NIV translation for the

four canonical gospels and the translation by Thomas O. Lambdinfor the gospel of Thomas.

The main divisions to this handout are:

Exonerating Practice: These are sayings to encourage and instruct us to live out, follow, and practice the

commandments and teachings of Jesus.

The main training commandments: These are the greatest commandments and the fulfillment of the

practice that all the rest of the commandments and teachings hang upon.

The training commandments for those who want to be perfect and who can accept renunciation:

Renunciation is the lifestyle of giving up all worldly things to fully practice, fulfill, and live the teachings.

These instructions are given to all people, but are lived out as, Jesus says, by those who can accept

them. Renunciants, monks, nuns, and homeless spiritual seekers are common place throughout Asia,

but this tradition and lifestyle of celibacy and lack of ownership has for the most part been lost,

disenfranchised, and compartmentalized in the West.

The training commandments for Renunciants and all people: These are the practices that are intended

for all people, lay followers and Renunciants alike. These practices do not require the complete

renunciation of the family and home to follow, though the spirit of these practices do point to and

praise renunciation as its fulfillment and greatest lifestyle and spiritual ideal. Classical Asian spirituality is

divided between the householder or lay person and the Renunciant. The Renunciant renounces all for

the fulfillment of the practice while the householder encourages, supports, and learns from the

Renuncients quest to fulfill the religious ideal.

The symbolic and mystical training commandments for Renunciants and all people: These are

teachings that are meant to be practiced metaphorically or spiritually.

The training commandments to Priests and Teachers of the law: These are instructions that are

specifically directed at experts and teachers in priestly or religious knowledge, though they are

instructional to all.

The training commandments that we are to say or pray: These are the instructions on what we are topray or say.

The training commandments concerning Belief: These are the practices on how we are to believe.

The training commandments that apply to the disciples contextual situation: These are instructions

that apply to a specific context within the narrative.

The training commandments that you must be born again: These are the training commandments

concerning the idea that we must be born again.


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The Gospel Of Mathew

Exonerating Practice

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5:19 Whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.5:19 Do not break one of the least of these commandments and do not teach others to do the same or

you will be called least in the kingdom of heaven

7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man

who built his house on the rock.

7:26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish

man who built his house on sand.

11:29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me

15:3 Why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition.

15:6 Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

19:17 Obey the commandments

28:20 Go make disciples of all nations and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you

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Instructions and Practices To Do:

7:12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and

the Prophets.

22:37 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, this is the

greatest commandment.

22:39 Love your neighbor as yourself, this second commandment is the like the first. All the Law and the

Prophets hang on these two commandments.

Instructions and Practices Not To Do:

5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them

but to fulfill them.

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5:48 Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

7:13 Enter through the narrow gate

19:11 Renounce marriage for the kingdom of heaven. Those who can accept this should accept it.

19:21 Sell your possessions and give to the poor and have treasures in heaven and then follow me if you

want to be perfect

19:29 Leave your house for my sake and you will inherit eternal life

19:29 Leave your brothers and sisters for my sake and you will inherit eternal life


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19:29 Leave your fathers and mothers for my sake and you will inherit eternal life

19:29 Leave your children for my sake and you will inherit eternal life

19:29 Leave your fields for my sake and you will inherit eternal life

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Instruction and Practices To Do:

4:10 Worship God and serve him only.

4:17 Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

4:19 Come, follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

5:3 Be poor in spirit

5:4 Mourn

5:6 Be meek

5:7 Be merciful

5:8 Be pure in heart

5:9 Be peacemakers5:10 Be persecuted because of righteousness

5:11-12 Rejoice and be glad when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil

against you because of me.

5:16 Let your light shine before men so they can see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

5:20 To enter the kingdom of heaven your righteousness must surpass the Priests and teachers of Law.

5:24 Be reconciled to your brother

5:25 Settle matters quickly with your adversary. Do it while you are still with him.

5:37 Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

5:39 If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn him the other also.

5:40 If someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.

5:41 If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.5:42 Give to the one who asks you.

5:44 Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in

heaven.

6:4 Give in secret.

6:6 When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.

6:12 Forgive your debtors

6:14 Forgive men when they sin against you

6:17 When you fast, look nice and normal, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting.

6:20 Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven

6:33 Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

7:5 First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from

your brothers eye

7:7 Ask, your Father in heaven, and it will be given to you

7:7 Seek, your Father in heaven, and you will find

7:7 Knock and the door will be opened by your Father in heaven

7:15 Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are

ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them.

9:9 Follow me

9:13 Practice Mercy


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9:38 Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field

10:7 Preach this message

10:8 Heal the sick

10:8 Raise the dead

10:8 Cleanse those who have leprosy

10:8 Drive out demons

10:8 Freely give as you have freely received

10:16 Be as shrewd as snakes

10:16 Be as innocent as doves

10:17 Be on your guard against men

10:22 Stand firm till the end

10:23 When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another

10:27 Speak in the daylight what I tell you in the dark

10:27 Proclaim from the roofs what is whispered in your ear

10:32 Acknowledge me before men

10:38 Take your cross and follow me

10:39 Lose your life for my sake and you will find it

10:41 Receive a prophet and receive a prophets reward10:41 Receive a righteous man and receive a righteous mans reward

11:28 Come to me and I will give you rest

11:29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me

12:7 Do Mercy, not sacrifice

12:50 Do the will of my Father in heaven and be my brother and sister and mother

14:16 Give them something to eat

15:32 Have compassion

16:6 Be careful

16:6 Be on guard against the yeast of the Priests and teachers of the Law.

16:24 Deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me

16:20 Have faith18:3 Change and become like little children to enter the kingdom of heaven

18:4 Humble yourself like a child

18:15 Go and show him his fault, just between the two of you, if your brother sins against you

18:16 Take one or two others along with you, if your brother will not listen, so that there will be multiple

witnesses if your brother sins against you

18:17 Tell it to the church if your brother who sins against you refuses to listen.

18:17 Treat him as if he were not part of the church, if your brother who sins against you refuses to

listen to the church

18:22 Forgive seventy-seven times.

18:35 Forgive your brother from your heart

19:17 Obey the commandments

19:18 Honor your father and mother

19:18 Love your neighbor as yourself

20:26 Be a servant

21:21 Have faith

22:21 Give to Caesar what is Caesars and to God what is Gods.

23:11 Be a servant

23:12 Be humble

24:4 Watch out that no one deceives you


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24:6 See to it that you are not alarmed when you hear of wars or rumors of wars

24:13 Stand firm to the end and be saved

25:13 Keep watch

25:35 Give someone hungry something to eat

25:35 Give someone thirsty something to drink

25:35 Invite a stranger in

25:36 Give clothes to those in need

25:35 Look after those who are sick

25:36 Visit those who are in prison

26:41 Watch and pray so that you do not fall into temptation

28:19 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the

Holy Spirit.


4:7 Do not put God to the test.

5:22 Do not be angry with your brother.

5:22 Do not say you fool5:28 Do not look at a woman lustfully.

5:32 Do not divorc your wife except for marital unfaithfulness.

5:34 Do not swear at all.

5:39 Do not resist an evil person.

5:42 Do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

6:1 Do not do your acts of righteousness before men, to be seen by them.

6:2 Do not announce it with trumpets when you give to the needy.

6:3 Do not let your left had know what your right hand is doing when you give to the needy.

6:5 Do not be like the hypocrites and pray to be seen by men.

6:7 Do not keep on babbling like pagans when you pray, for they think they will be heard because of

their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask.6:16 Do not look somber when you fast.

6:19 Do not store up treasures for yourselves

6:24 Do not serve Money. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and Money.

6:25 Do not worry about your life

6:25 Do not worry what you will eat or drink

6:25 Do not worry about your body

6:25 Do not worry what you will wear

6:28 Do not worry about clothes

6:31 Do not worry

6:34 Do not worry about tomorrow

7:1 Do not judge

7:3 Do not look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your

own eye

7:6 Do not give dogs what is sacred

7:6 Do not throw your pearls to pigs

9:13 Do not practice sacrifice

10:19 Do not worry about what to say or how to say it when they arrest you for following me.

10:26 Do not be afraid of them.


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10:28 Do not be afraid of those who can kill the body, but be afraid of the One who can destroy both

body and soul

10:31 Dont be afraid

10:33 Do not disown me before men

10:34 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.

10:37 Do not love your father or mother more than me

10:37 Do not love your son or daughter more than me

12:32 Do not speak a word against the Holy Spirit

12:36 Do not speak careless words

15:3 Do not break the command of God for the sake of your tradition.

15:6 Do not nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

15:9 Do not worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men

15:19 Do not have evil thoughts

15:19 Do not murder

15:19 Do not do adultery

15:19 Do not do sexual immorality

15:19 Do not do theft

15:19 Do not do false testimony15:19 Do not slander

15:32 Do not send people away hungry

17:25-26 Do not offend the kings of the earth by not paying taxes

18:6 Do not cause the little ones who believe in me to sin

18:10 Do not look down on the little ones

19:6 Do not separate a couple God has joined together in marriage

19:9 Do not divorce your wife, except for marital unfaithfulness.

19:9 Do not marry another woman, except if your wife is martially unfaithful.

19:14 Do not hinder the little children

19:18 Do not murder

19:18 Do not steal19:18 Do not give false testimony

20:25 Do not exercise authority over other people

21:21 Do not doubt

23:8 Do not call yourself Master

23:9 Do not call anyone on earth father

23:10 Do not call yourself teacher

23:25 Do not be greedy

23:25 Do not be self indulgent

The symbolic training commandments for renunciants and all people

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The training commandments to Priests and Teachers of the law

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22:26 Clean the inside of the cup and dish, and the outside also will be clean.


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23:4 Do not tie up heavy loads and put them on mens shoulders when you yourselves will not lift a

finger to move them

23:5 Do not have everything you do to be seen by men

23:5 Do not make your phylacteries wide

23:5 Do not make your tassels on your garments long

23: Do not love the place of honor and the banquet

23:6 Do not love the most important seats in the synagogues

23:7 Do not love to be greeted in the marketplaces

23:7 Do not love for men to call you Teacher

23:13 Do not be hypocrites

23:13 Do not shut the kingdom of heaven in mens faces who are trying to enter when you yourself do

not enter

23:23 Do not neglect justice, mercy, and faithfulness

23:26 Do not look beautiful on the outside and on the inside be unclean

23:28 Do not on the outside appear to be righteous, but on the inside be fully of hypocrisy

The training commandments that we are to say or pray

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6:9-13 Pray: Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth

as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our

debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

The training commandments concerning what to Believe

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21:22 Believe and receive whatever you ask for in prayer


24:23 Do not believe it if some says look there is Christ

24:26 Do not believe it and go out into the desert if some says he is out there

24:26 Do not believe it if someone says I am in an inner room

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The training commandments that you must be born again

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Questions for the gospel of Mathew:

What does Jesus say God is? 6:6 unseen, Father, Lord, 9:38 Lord of the harvest


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What does commandment mean?

What are good deeds?

What is your light?

What is renunciation? 22:30

What is righteousness?

What does it mean to believe?

What does it mean to follow Jesus?

How do you serve God?

What is the kingdom of God?

What is sin?

What does blasphemy against the Holy Spirit mean?

What is the meaning of fishers of men?

How do we become poor in spirit?

How do we become pure in heart?

How do we practice these instructions Jesus is giving us?

How do we become like little children?

How do we humble ourselves like a little child?

The Gospel Of Mark

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7:8 Dont hold onto the traditions of men and let go of the commands of God.

7:9 Do not set aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions

7:13 Do not nullify the word of God by your traditions that you have handed down


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12:30 Love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your

strength

12:31 Love your neighbor as yourself


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6:10 Stay there until you leave that town whenever you enter a house

8:34 Deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me

8:35 Lose your life for me and the gospel and save it

9:35 Be last to be first

9:35 Be a servant to all

10:21 Go sell everything you have and give to the poor


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10:29 Leave home and brothers and sisters and mother and father and children and fields to follow me

12:25 Be like angels in heaven who neither marry nor are given in marriage

10:43 Be a servant

10:44 Be a slave to all


6:8 Take nothing for the journey except a staff and sandals

6:8 Take no bread on the journey

6:8 Take no bag on the journey

6:8 Take no money in your belts for the journey

6:9 Take no extra tunic on the journey


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1:15 Repent and believe the good news.

1:17 Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men

4:9 Hear if you have ears

4:20 Hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop

4:23 Hear if you have ears

5:34 Have your faith heal you

5:34 Be at peace

5:34 Be free from suffering


7:21 Clean evil thoughts from within you

7:21 Clean sexual immorality from your heart7:21 Clean theft from within you

7:21 Clean murder from within you

7:21 Clean adultery from with you

7:22 Clean greed from within you

7:22 Clean malice from within you

7:22 Clean deceit from within you

7:22 Clean lewdness from within you

7:22 Clean envy from within you

7:22 Clean slander from within you

7:22 Clean arrogance from within you

7:22 Clean folly from within you

8:15 Watch out for the yeast of the Priests and that of local rulers

9:37 Welcome the little children in my name and you welcome the one who sent me

9:50 Be at peace with each other

10:15 Receive the kingdom of God like a little child in order to enter it

10:19 Honor your father and mother

10:52 Have your faith heal you

11:22 Have faith in God

11:25 Forgive anyone who you hold anything against when you pray


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12:17 Give to Caesar what is Caesars and to God what is Gods

12:27 Worship the God of the living, not the God of the dead

12:38 Watch out for the teachers of the law

13:5 Watch out that no one deceives you

12:43 Be like the poor widow who gives everything she has, all she had to live on

13:9 Be on your guard when you are handed over to the local council

13:9 Be witnesses to governors and kings

13:10 Preach the gospel to all nations

13:13 Stand firm to the end and be saved even when all men hate you because of me

13:33 Be alert

13:33 Be on guard

13:37 Watch

16:15 Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation


3:29 Do not blaspheme against the Holy Spirit

4:17 Do not have trouble or persecution make you fall away from the word4:19 Dont have worries of this life choke out the word

4:19 Dont have the deceitfulness of wealth choke out the word

4:19 Dont have the desire for other things choke out the word

8:36 Dont forfeit your soul by gaining the world

9:39 Do not stop anyone who does a miracle in my name

9:42 Do not cause a child, who believes in me, to sin

10:9 Do not separate a married couple

10:11 Do not marry another woman and divorce your wife

10:12 Do not marry another man and divorce your husband

10:14 Do not hinder the little children from coming to me because the kingdom of God belongs to them

10:18 Do not call Jesus good, but only call God good10:19 Do not murder

10:19 Do not commit adultery

10:19 Do not steal

10:19 Do not give false testimony

10:19 Do not defraud

10:23 Do not be a rich man

10:42 Do not exercise authority over others

11:23 Do not have doubt in your heart

13:11 Do not worry about what you will say when you are arrested and brought to trial

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9:43 Cut off your hand if it causes you to sin

9:45 Cut off your foot if it causes you to sin

9:47 Pluck out your eye if it causes you to sin

9:50 Have salt in yourself


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13:36 Do not let the owner of the house find you sleeping


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5:36 Dont be afraid, just believe


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11:23 Believe what you say will happen

11:24 Believe that you have received whatever you ask for in prayer and it will be yours

16:17 Believe in the good news and drive out demons

16:17 Believe in the good news and speak in new tongues

16:17 Believe in the good news and pick up snakes with your hands and they will not hurt you

16:18 Believe in the good news and drink deadly poisons and it will not hurt you

16:18 Believe in the good news and place your hands upon sick people and they will be healed


13:21 Do not believe it when they say look there is the Christ


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Questions for the gospel of Mark:

What does Jesus say God is? 12:29 one 12:29 lord

What does repent mean?

What does follow me mean?

What is the resurrection?


What is preaching the good news?

Why does Jesus say only call God good and do not even call him good?

Why does Jesus say not to divorce and remarry?


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What is the word?

What is your soul?

How do you clean evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit,

lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly from within you?

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6:40 Be fully trained like your teacher

6:26 Why do you call me Lord and do not do what I say

6:47 Hear my words and put them into practice

6:49 Dont hear my words and not put them into practice

8:15 Hear the word, retain it, and persevere to produce a crop

8:21 Put Gods word into practice and be my mother and brothers

11:28 Hear the word of God and obey it11:42 Practice justice and the love of God

12:21 Be rich towards God for you will get what you have prepared for yourself

13:24 Make every effort to enter through the narrow door


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10:28 Do this and you will live: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with

all your strength and with all your mind and, Love your neighbor as yourself.


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9:4 Whatever house you enter stay there until you leave that town

9:5 Shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town if people do not welcome you as a

testimony against them

9:60 Go and proclaim the kingdom of God and let the dead bury their dead.

10:5 Say first, Peace to this house, when you enter a house.

10:7 Stay in the house you enter and do not move around house to house10:7 Eat and drink whatever they give you.

10:8 Eat what is set before you when you are welcomed into a town.

10:9 Heal the sick

10:9 Tell them, The kingdom of God is near you.

10:11 Say in the streets when you enter a town and are not welcomed, Even the dust of your town that

sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.


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10:18 Trample on snakes and scorpions and overcome all the power of the enemy for nothing will harm

you.

10:20 Rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

13:24 Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many will try to enter and will not

be able to

14:26 Hate your father and your mother

14:26 Hate your wife and your children

14:26 Hate your brothers and sisters

14:26 Hate your own life

14:27 Carry your cross and follow me

14:33 Give up everything you have to be my disciple

14:35 Have ears to hear

17:33 Lose your life and you will preserve it, because one will be taken and the other left

18:22 Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come

follow me.

18:29 Leave home and wife and brothers and parents and children for the sake of the kingdom of God

and you will receive many times as much wealth in this age and in the age to come. You will receive

eternal life.


9:3 Do not take anything for your journey

9:3 Do not take a staff for your journey

9:3 Do not take a bag for your journey

9:3 Do not take bread for your journey

9:3 Do not take money for your journey

9:3 Do not take an extra tunic for your journey

10:4 Do not take a purse

10:4 Do not take a bag10:4 Do not take sandals

10:4 Do not greet anyone on the road

10:20 Do not rejoice when spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

20:35 Do not marry or be given in marriage and be considered worthy of taking part in that age

20:35 Do not marry or be given in marriage and be considered worthy of taking part in the resurrection

of the dead

20:36 Do not marry or be given in marriage and be like angels

20:36 Do not marry or be given in marriage and you can no longer die

20:36 Do not marry or be given in marriage and be Gods children

20:36 Do not marry or be given in marriage and be children of the resurrection


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4:8 Worship God and serve him only

4:18 Preach the good news to the poor

4:18 Proclaim freedom for the prisoners


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4:18 Recover sight for the blind

4:18 Release the oppressed

4:19 Proclaim the year of the Lords favor

6:20 Be poor for yours is the kingdom of God

6:21 Hunger now for you will be satisfied

6:21 Weep now for you will laugh

6:22 Be hated and excluded and insulted and have your name rejected as evil because of the Son of

Man

6:23 Rejoice and leap for joy when you are persecuted for your reward is great in heaven

6:27 Love your enemies

6:27 Do good to those who hate you

6:28 Bless those who curse you

6:28 Pray for those who mistreat you

6:29 If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also

6:29 If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic

6:30 Give to everyone who asks you

6:30 If anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back

6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you6:35 Love your enemies

6:35 Do good to your enemies

6:35 Lend to your enemies without expecting to get anything back

6:35 Be kind to the ungrateful and wicked

6:36 Be merciful

6:37 Forgive

6:38 Give

6:40 Be fully trained like your teacher

6:42 First take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your

brothers eye

8:15 Hear the word, retain it, and persevere to produce a crop8:18 Consider carefully how you listen


9:23 Deny yourself and take up your cross daily and follow me

9:24 Lose your life for me and save it

9:48 Welcome the little child in my name

9:48 Be the least among you

10:37 Go and do mercy

11:8 Be bold

11:9 Ask, your Father in heaven for the Holy Spirit, and it will be given to you

11:9 Seek, the Holy Spirit from your Father in Heaven, and find

11:9 Knock the door, of your Father in heaven for the Holy Spirit, and it will open for you

11:10 Ask, your Father in heaven for the Holy Spirit, and receive

11:10 Seek, the Holy Spirit from your Father in Heaven, and find

11:10 Knock the door, of your Father in Heaven for the Holy Spirit, and it will be opened

11:23 Gather with me or you will scatter

12:1 Be on your guard against the yeast of the Priests, which is hypocrisy

12:4 Fear him who has the power to throw you into hell

12:8 Acknowledge me before men and the Son of Man will acknowledge you before the angles of God

12:15 Watch out!


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4:12 Do not put your God to the test

6:24 Do not be rich because you have already received your comfort

6:25 Do not be well fed now because you will go hungry

6:25 Do not laugh now because you will mourn and weep

6:26 Do not have all men speak well of you for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets

6:37 Do not judge

6:37 Do not condemn

6:41 Do not look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your

own eye

8:14 Do not let lifes worries choke the growth of Gods word in your hearts

8:14 Do not let lifes riches choke the maturing of Gods word in your hearts

8:14 Do not let lifes pleasures choke the growth and maturing of Gods words in your hearts

9:25 Do not gain the whole world and yet lose your self

9:25 Do not be ashamed of me and my words

9:50 Do not stop a person who is driving out demons in Jesus name, but who is not with you, for

whoever is not against you is for you.

10:41 Do not be worried or upset about many things, because only a few things are needed.

11:23 Do not be against me, but be for me12:4 Do not be afraid of those who can kill the body

12:7 Dont be afraid

12:10 Do not blaspheme against the Holy Spirit

12:11 Do not worry about how you will defend yourself or what you will say when you are brought

before the priests, rulers, and authorities, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should

say.

12:22 Do not worry about your life

12:22 Do not worry about what you will eat

12:22 Do not worry about your body

12:22 Do not worry about what you will wear

12:29 Do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink12:29 Do not worry about it

12:32 Do not be afraid for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom

12:51 Do not think I come to bring peace to the earth, I come bringing division

16:13 Do not serve Money

16:15 Do not value what is highly valued among men which is detestable to Gods sight.

16:18 Do not divorce your wife and marry another woman which is adultery

16:18 Do not marry a divorced woman which is adultery

16:19-31 Do not be a rich person, live in poverty

17:2 Do not cause one of these little ones to sin, so watch yourselves

17:23 Do not go running after men who tell you the Son of Man is here or there for the Son of Man is

like lightning which flashes and lights of the whole sky from one end to the other.

17:33 Do not try to keep your life or you will lose it

18:14 Do not exalt yourself

18:16 Do not hinder the little children, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these

18:19 Do not call Jesus good, only call God good

18:20 Do not commit adultery

18:20 Do not commit murder

18:20 Do not steal

18:20 Do not give false testimony


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18:20 Do not dishonor your father and mother

18:24-25 Do not be a rich man

18:46 Do not make the Lords house a den of robbers, but a house of prayer

22:25 Do not lord yourselves over others like the kings of the Gentiles, but instead the greatest among

you should be like the youngest and the one who rules like the one who serves.

22:24 Do not exercise authority over others and call yourselves Benefactors, but instead the greatest

among you should be like the youngest and the one who rules like the one who serves.


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11:41 Give what is inside your dish to the poor and everything will be clean for you

11:42 Practice justice and the love of God while giving a tenth of your mint, rue and all kinds of garden

herbs.

14:10 Take the lowest sitting place when choosing a place to sit

14:11 Be humble14:13 When you give a banquet or a large dinner, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

19:42 Know what will bring you peace

19:44 Recognize the time ofGods coming to you


11:39 Do not be inwardly full of greed and wickedness, while cleaning the outside of the cup, priests

11:42 Do not neglect justice and the love of God, priests

11:43 Do not love the most important seats and greetings, experts in the law

11:46 Do not load people down with burdens they can hardly carry when you will not lift one finger to

help them, experts in the law11:47 Do not kill the prophets, experts in the law

11:52 Do not take away the key to knowledge, experts in the law, because you yourself have not

entered and you are hindering those who are entering.

12:1 Do not be a hypocrite, teachers of the law

14:8 Do not take the place of honor when choosing a place to sit, but take the lowest place

14:11 Do not exalt yourself

14:12 Do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors, when you give a

luncheon or dinner; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid, but when you give a

banquet or dinner, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

16:15 Do not justify yourselves in the eyes of men for God knows your heart

20:46 Do not walk around in flowing robes

20:46 Do not love to be greeted in the marketplace

20:46 Do not love to have the most important seats in the house of prayer

20:46 Do not love to have the places of honor at banquets and dinner

20:47 Do not devour widows houses

20:47 Do not make lengthy prayers for show


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11:2 When you pray say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our

daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into

temptation.

17:10 Say, We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty, when you have done everything

you were told to do.

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22:36 If you have a purse, take it.22:36 if you have a bag, take it.

22:36 If you dont have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

22:36 Pray that you will not fall into temptation.

23:45-49 (Open your minds so you can understand the scripture that) the Christ will suffer and rise from

the dead on the third day and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all

nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my

Father has promised but (stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.)


23:38 Do not be troubled and do not have doubts arise in your mind that I am not a ghost, but I haveflesh and bones.


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Questions for the gospel of Luke

What does Jesus say God is? 20:38 God is God of the living for to him all are alive. God is not God of the

dead.

What is the meaning ofJesus name?

What are the angles of God?

What does the Son of Man mean?

What is the narrow door?

What is the resurrection from the dead?

What is Love?

Where is the Kingdom of God? 17:21

How can faith make you well? 17:19


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The Gospel of John

Exoneration of Practice

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3:21 Live by the truth and come into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what you do has beendone through God

5:29 Those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be

condemned

5:29 Do good

8:51 Keep my word and you will never see death

8:31 Hold unto my teachings and you will know truth and the truth will set you free

12:47 Keep my words when you hear them

12:50 Know that his command leads to eternal life

13:17 Do the things I have told you and be blessed

14:12 Have faith in me and do what I have been doing

14:12 Do even greater things than these

14:15 Obey what I command if you love me

14:21 Have and obey my commands is to love me and if you love me the Father loves you

14:23 Obey my teachings if you love me

15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command

15:10 Obey my commands and you will remain in my love just as I have obeyed my Fathers commands

and remain in his love

15:20 If they obeyed my teachings, they will obey yours also


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13:34 Love one another is the new command I give you

13:34 Love one another as I have loved you

13:35 Love one another so all men will know you are my disciples

15:12 Love each other as I have loved you

15:13 Lay down your life for your friends, there is nothing greater than this

15:17 Love each other, this is my command


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12:25 Hate your life in this world and keep it for eternal life


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4:23-24 Worship the Father in spirit and truth

4:38 Reap what you have not worked for

5:23 Honor the Son and honor the Father who sent him

5:42 Have the love of God in your heart

6:27 Work for food that endures to eternal life

6:63 Understand the words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life

8:31 Know truth

8:31 Have truth set you free

8:47 Hear what God says and belong to God

13:14-15 You also should wash one anothers feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I

have done.

13:20 Accept anyone I send and you will accept me and the one who sent me

14:1 Trust in God

14:1 Trust also in me

14:14 Ask for anything in my name and I will do it

14:21 Love me15:4 Remain in me and I will remain in you

15:4 Remain in me and bear fruit

15:7 Ask whatever you wish and it will be given you if you remain in me and my words remain in you

15:9 Remain in my love

15:27 Testify

16:24 Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete

17:11 Be one

17:21 Be one

17:22 Be at complete unity and be one like Jesus and God is

20:22 Receive the Holy Spirit

20:23 Forgive anyone of their sins then they are forgiven and if you do not forgive anyone of their sinsthey are not forgiven


2:16 Do not turn my Fathers house into a market

3:7 Do not be surprised at my saying, You must be born again

3:20 Do not do evil

3:20 Do not hate the light

5:29 Do not do evil

6:25 Do not work for food that spoils

7:24 Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment

8:15 Do not judge by human standards

14:1 Dont let your hearts be troubled

14:27 Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid


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6:51 Eat this bread, which is my flesh, and live forever

6:53 Eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood to have life in you

6:54 Eat my flesh and drink my blood to have eternal life and I will raise you up on the last day

6:56 Eat my flesh and drink my blood and remain in me and I will remain in you

6:57 Feed on me and live because of me just as I live because of the Father

6:58 Feed on this bread and live forever unlike your forefathers who at manna and died

7:37 Come to me and drink if you are thirsty

8:12 Follow me and have the light of life and never walk in darkness

9:9 Enter through me and be saved

12:26 Serve me and you will follow me

12:36 Put your trust in the light so that you may become sons of light

12:36 Become sons of light


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3:15 Believe in the Son of Man to have eternal Life

3:16 Believe in him and you will not perish, but have eternal life

3:18 Believe in him and you are not condemned

5:24 Hear my word and believe him who sent me and have eternal life

6:29 Do the work of God which is to believe in the one he has sent

6:29 Believe in the one God has sent

6:46 Believe and have eternal life. Believe that no one has seen the Father except for the one who is

from God and Believe that only he has seen the Father and have eternal life.

6:64 Believe

7:38 Believe in me and streams of living water will flow from within you8:24 Believe that I am the one I claim to be or you will die in your sins

11:25 Believe in me and live even though you die

11:26 Believe in me and live and never die

11:40 Believe and see the glory of God

12:44 Believe in me and believe in the one who sent me

14:11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me or at least believe on

the evidence of the miracles themselves

16:27 Believe that I come from God

20:27 Stop doubting and believe

20:29 Believe even though you have not seen me


3:18 Dont not believe in the name of Gods one and only Son or you will stand condemned already

9:37 Do not believe me unless I do as my Father does


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21:15 Feed my lambs

21:16 Take care of my sheep

21:17 Feed my sheep

The training commandments on being born again

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3:3 Be born again to see the kingdom of God.

3:5 Be born of water and Spirit to see the kingdom of God

3:7 You must be born again

3:8 Be born of Spirit

Questions for the gospel of John:

What does Jesus say God is? 4:24 spirit

What does it mean to hate your life in this world?

How do you honor the Son and the Father?

What is the Son of Man?


What does it mean to be born again?

What is Spirit?

What does one and only mean?

What does worship mean?

What is the last day?

What does Jesus mean when he says he will raise you up?Who does Jesus claim to be in John? 8:24

What does it mean to be saved?

What does it mean to love Jesus?

What does it mean to eat Jesus flesh and blood to live forever?

What does it mean to become a son of light?


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The Gospel of Thomas


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25 Love your friends like your own soul

25 Protect your friends like the pupil of your eye


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14 Eat what people serve you wherever you go

14 Heal the sick wherever you go

15 Fall on your face and worship when you see one who is not born of woman. That one is your

Father.

22 Make the two into one

22 Make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner and the upper like the lower

22 Make the male and female into a single one, so the male will not be male nor the female be female

22 Make an eye in place of an eye

22 Make a hand in place of a hand22 Make a foot in place of a foot

22 Make an image in place of an image

23 Stand as a single one

27 Fast from the world

28 Shake of the drunkenness of the world

37 Strip without being ashamed and take your clothes and put them under your feet like little children

and trample them

42 Be passersby

49 Be alone

55 Hate your father and mother

55 Hate your brother and sister55 Carry the cross as I do

64 Do not be a buyer or a merchant

75 Be alone and enter the bridal suite

110 Renounce the world


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2 Seek until you find

3 Know yourself

5 Know what is in front of your face

12 Go to James the Just

19 Pay attention to my sayings

21 Be on guard against the world.

21 Prepare yourselves with great strength

21 Be a person who understands

21 Have two good ears and listen

24 Listen if you have two ears

39 Be as sly as snakes and simple as doves

48 Make peace

58 Toil and find life

60 Seek for yourselves a place of rest

70 Bring forth what is within you76 Seek his treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat and no worm

destroys

81 Renounce Power

90 Come to me, for my yoke is comfortable and my lordship is gentle, and you will find rest for

yourselves

91 Examine the present moment

92 Seek and you will find

95 Give money to someone whom you wont get it back

100 Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor and give God what belongs to God when taxes are

demanded of you

111 Find yourself


6 Dont Lie

6 Dont do what you hate

36 Do not fret from morning to evening and from evening to morning

36 Do not fret about your food

36 Do not fret about what you are going to eat

36 Do not fret about what you are going to wear

39 Do not hide the keys of knowledge like the Priests and the Scholars

44 Do not blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

47 Do not serve two masters

87 Do not depend on your body

93 Dont give what is holy to dogs

93 Dont throw pears to pigs

95 Dont lend money at interest


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18 Stand at the beginning

19 Come into being before coming into being

19 Know the five trees of paradise

101 Drink from my mouth


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50 Say, We have come from the light, from the place where the light came into being by itself,

established itself, and appeared in their image, if they say to you, Where have you come from.

50 Say, We are its children, and we are the chosen of the l iving Father, if they say to you, Is it you?

50 Say, It is motion and rest, if they say to you, What is the evidence ofthe Father in you.88 Say to yourselves, When will the messengers and prophets come and take what belongs to them

and when they do come, give them what you have

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Questions for the gospel of Thomas:

What does Jesus say God is? The living Father, Light, One not born of woman (spirit)

How do we know ourselves?

How do we make the two into one?

How do we find ourselves?

How do we examine the present moment?

How do we stand at the beginning?

How do we come into being before coming into being?

How do we know the five trees of paradise?

How do we drink from Jesus mouth?

What does it mean to blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?


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Questions Comparing and Contrasting the Five Gospels

How is the main training commandment a fulfillment to the rest of the training commandments?

How does the main training commandment guide and shape our understanding of the rest of the

practice?

How are the various training commandments instructional and descriptive in showing what the maintraining commandment means?

How are the training commandments of the synoptic gospels different from the training

commandments of John?

What does this infer about the differing focuses and emphases between the synoptic gospels and the

gospel of John?

How is the use of belief in the gospel of John different from the use of belief in the other gospels?

Which gospels do you think come from more renunciant traditions and which gospels do you think come

from more householder traditions?

How are the gospel of Thomas and the gospel of John similar?

Which gospels instructions of practice are the most similar and which gospels are the most different?

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