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Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the
will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:24-27 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of
Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who
built his house on the rock: {25} "and the rain descended,
the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house;
and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. {26}
"But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not
do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on
the sand: {27} "and the rain descended, the floods came, and
the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And
great was its fall."
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father
which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and
mother.
Matthew 28:19-20 "Go therefore and make disciples of all
the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, {20} "teaching them to
observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am
with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the
things which I say?
Luke 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that
hear the word of God, and keep it.
John 8:31-32 "If you abide in my word, you are my
disciples indeed. (32) "And you shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free"
John 8:51 "Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps
My word he shall never see death."
John 10:27-28 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them,
and they follow Me. {28} "And I give them eternal life, and
they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them
out of My hand.
John 10:3-5 "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep
hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads
them out. {4} "And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes
before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his
voice. {5} "Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but
will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of
strangers."
John 12:25-26 "He who loves his life will lose it, and he
who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal
life. {26} "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and
where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves
Me, him My Father will honor.
John 14:15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments.
John 14:20-21 "At that day you will know that I am in My
Father, and you in Me, and I in you. {21} "He who has My
commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he
who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him
and manifest Myself to him."
John 14:23-24 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone
loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him,
and We will come to him and make Our home with him. {24} "He
who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word
which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.
John 15 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the
vinedresser. {2} "Every branch in Me that does not bear
fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He
prunes, that it may bear more fruit. {3} "You are already
clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. {4}
"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you,
unless you abide in Me. {5} "I am the vine, you are the
branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much
fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. {6} "If anyone
does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is
withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire,
and they are burned. {7} "If you abide in Me, and My words
abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. {8} "By this My Father is glorified, that you
bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. {9} "As the
Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
{10} "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My
love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide
in His love. {11} "These things I have spoken to you, that
My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
{12} "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I
have loved you. {13} "Greater love has no one than this,
than to lay down one's life for his friends. {14} "You are
My friends if you do whatever I command you. {15} "No longer
do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his
master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all
things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
{16} "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed
you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit
should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name
He may give you. {17} "These things I command you, that you
love one another. {18} "If the world hates you, you know
that it hated Me before it hated you. {19} "If you were of
the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are
not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you. {20} "Remember the word that
I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.'
If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they
kept My word, they will keep yours also. {21} "But all these
things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they
do not know Him who sent Me. {22} "If I had not come and
spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no
excuse for their sin. {23} "He who hates Me hates My Father
also. {24} "If I had not done among them the works which no
one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen
and also hated both Me and My Father. {25} "But this
happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written
in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.' {26} "But
when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the
Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He
will testify of Me. {27} "And you also will bear witness,
because you have been with Me from the beginning.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them.
James 1:22-27 But be doers of the word, and not hearers
only, deceiving yourselves. {23} For if anyone is a hearer
of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his
natural face in a mirror; {24} for he observes himself, goes
away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. {25}
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and
continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of
the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. {26} If
anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle
his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion
is useless. {27} Pure and undefiled religion before God and
the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their
trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 2:14-26 What does it profit, my brethren, if
someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith
save him? {15} If a brother or sister is naked and destitute
of daily food, {16} and one of you says to them, "Depart in
peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the
things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
{17} Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works,
is dead. {18} But someone will say, "You have faith, and I
have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I
will show you my faith by my works. {19} You believe that
there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe; and
tremble! {20} But do you want to know, O foolish man, that
faith without works is dead? {21} Was not Abraham our father
justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the
altar? {22} Do you see that faith was working together with
his works, and by works faith was made perfect? {23} And the
Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was
called the friend of God. {24} You see then that a man is
justified by works, and not by faith only. {25} Likewise,
was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she
received the messengers and sent them out another way? {26}
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also.
1 John 1:5-10 This is the message which we have heard
from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is
no darkness at all. {6} If we say that we have fellowship
with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice
the truth. {7} But if we walk in the light as He is in the
light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. {8} If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us. {9} If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. {10} If we say that we have not sinned, we
make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
1 John 2:3-6 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we
keep His commandments. {4} He who says, "I know Him," and
does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is
not in him. {5} But whoever keeps His word, truly the love
of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in
Him. {6} He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to
walk just as He walked.
1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 John 3:22-23 And whatever we ask we receive from Him,
because we keep His commandments and do those things that
are pleasing in His sight. {23} And this is His commandment:
that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ
and love one another, as He gave us commandment. {24} And he
who keeps his commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And
by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom He
has given us.
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. {3} For
this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and
his commandments are not grievous.
2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his
commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have
heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the
doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the
doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which
keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of
Jesus Christ.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his
commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Apr 1996
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