NT Commands 1-20

Remember a couple of days ago I mentioned about writing out the 1050 NT commands for copywork?  well, I've started listing them on my facebook wall but then I thought, you know what?  They'd be a handy little reference on my blog too.

1. Abstain from Idols 

Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

2. Abstain from Fornication

Acts 15:29
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

3. Abstain from strangled meats

Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

4. Abstain from blood

Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

5. Abstain from meats offered to idols

Acts 15:29
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

6. Abstain from all appearance of evil

1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.

7. Abstain from fleshly lusts

1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

8. Ask and ye shall receive

Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

9. Ask no return of Goods

Luke 6:30
Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

10. Ask life for backsliders

1 John 5:16
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

11. Avoid troublemakers

Romans 16:17
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

12. Avoid profane and vain babblings

1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

13. Avoid false science

1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

14. Avoid unlearned questions

2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

15. Avoid foolish questions

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

16. Avoid geneologies

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

17. Avoid arguments about the law

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

18. Awake to righteousness

1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

19. Awake to life

Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

20. Be exceeding glad

Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.