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Decalogue parchment by Jekuthiel Sofer 1768. We see the Ten Commandments listed off in the Old Testament.

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Ten Commandments

What are the ten commendments?

What are commandments?

The word "commandment" is defined as "a divine rule, especially one of the Ten Commandments."

Statements

Are there ten laws or ten statements?

"The Ten Commandments [are said to be] laws or rules handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. But the Hebrew word debar[1] suggesting they are Ten Statements. Even Dennis Prager says they are just the ten statements because the word in the text is haddebārîm הַדְּבָרִ֣ים.

Dennis Prager says in this video that the ten Commandments are just the ten statements. Why did he say that?______Time 5:09

There are only three times where we find the phrase "ten commandments" in the Bible[2] All three times we do not see the word mitsvah[3] but the word dabar.

The common Hebrew word for "word" is debar[1] and is also translated commandments but only 20 times out of over 1400 appearances in the Bible. As a base word it consists of the Hebrew letters DaletBeitReish which is a primitive root word which is also given the Strong's number 01696[4] and said to mean speak and appearing over a thousand times but only translated command 4 times.

But the word that actually appears in these verses containing the phrase Ten Commandments[2] is הַדְּבָרִֽים׃ haddebārîm or the Hebrew letters HeyDaletBeitReishYodMem.

  • ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
  • ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
  • ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
  • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
  • י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)
  • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)

This word in these three verses appears 133 times in Moses' writings but is not translated commandments but three times.[2] It is commonly and simply translated things, these things, or all these things or words.[5]

An example of the Ten Commandments are "I am the LORD thy God.

Ten

It is the word for ten that may give us some perspective. The Hebrew word eser or asarah AyinShinReish[6] that is commonly translated "ten" but in this text we see the word עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת ‘ă-śe-reṯ which is AyinShinReishTav.

  • ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
  • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
  • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
  • ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)

Together these Hebrew letters and the added letter Tav associated with faith, could be translated ten faith things or ten things of faith or even ten statements of faith.

There are laws that are built into creation and God is explaining in these ten statements that there are consequences for doing contrary to these precepts.

But you will need real faith in the power of God to abide by the words of God.[7]

The target

We may call the doing contrary to these instructions sin but they are only evidence of our rejection of God and His Holy Spirit. We should not imagine that the consequences are like violating man made laws[8] and suffering prescribed penalties.[9]

The Ten Commandments of God are not like the laws of men but rather more like the laws of physics. If sin is unrighteous acts or behavior contrary to the way of God's creation then there is no escape from the consequences except in a changing of your acts.

But can we change our acts without changing our thinking?

Can we change our thinking to a righteous way of thinking without eating of the tree of life and fasting from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?[10]

Is the remission of sins a product of baptism or the baptism of repentance?

Their meaning

Do we understand what the Ten Statements actually mean?

If they are actually telling us the cause and effect principle built in to the universe like the laws of physics or thermodynamics then we should ask:

Do we know the consequences to individuals and their societies when the people choose to neglect or stray from the way and policies these statements describe?

Exodus 20:1 ¶ And God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 ¶ Honour[11] thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

The other Commandment

But the word commandment in the Hebrew is the word mitsvah[3] formed from the Hebrew letters MemTzadikVavHey with the root TzadikVavHey.

The author is clearly expressing something different when he writes MemTzadikVavHey compared to DaletBeitReish and certainly when he writes HeyDaletBeitReishYodMem.

MemTzadikVavHey:

Mem has to do with something that flows,
Tzadik Has to do with righteousness,
Vav Has to do with Connecting realms or the dividing veil between them.
Hey Emphasizes Expression--Thought, Speech, Action like seeds.

MemTzadikVavHey comes from the Hebrew root word tsavah , TzadikVavHey[12] without the Mem which is commonly translated command. The Hebrew word tsav, TzadikVav [13] is almost always translated precept.

  • "But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken." Isaiah 28:13

So, are the Ten Commandments actually The Ten Laws or are they the Ten Statements?

Jesus only used the Greek word epitasso translated "command" once concerning his disciples in Mark 6:39. Almost no group calling itself the Church today follows that "command" off Christ about The Congregation of the people.

Done away

Were these commandments done away with by Christ?

Or was it the laws of the Pharisees and the hand written ordinances.

Jesus did make some direct statements too. One of my favorites and commonly ignored is:

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve."

This of course was when he appointed the kingdom[14] to the apostles like he said he was going to do back in Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

So these apostles were supposed to be the leaders of his government at hand and Benefactors of the people but were told not to exercise authority over them.

That is what used to be a Pure Republic where leaders were not rulers but the leaders of the government were still titular.

What Christ was doing was teaching and appointing an all voluntary government that operated by the Perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies through Faith, Hope and Charity by way of Freewill offerings of the people, for the people and by the people.

This is what Moses was doing also. The ten commandments were the The Ten Laws and not redundant once we understand them.

You would think that would be easy.

No one seems to get it that you cannot covet your neighbor's goods, land, labor or anything that is his which cuts all Socialism out of the Christian equation. With these two items alone all forced taxes and social Welfare supported by forced contributions ends immediately if the nation is a Christian nation.

The Pharisees read the Torah and thought that it was telling them to pile up stones to make altars and burn up sheep and kill doves and that would make God happy.

The Essenes read the same book and did not do any of that. We know the Pharisees had it wrong so what were the Essenes doing and what did they have to do with Christ? What Sophistry has been accepted in place of the truth?

Did the original Torah tell us to pile up stones, kill sheep and set them on fire or was that view the result of Sophistry?

If it did not say to do those things, what else did we get wrong?

  • Was the Golden calf a central bank?
  • Was the Red Heifer even a bovine at all or foreign aid?
  • Were the Altars piles of stone or people and institutions of charity?
  • What did Religion mean back then or just a few hundred years ago?

Does anyone today even know what Pure Religion was?

James told you, but people just float right by it as if they were blind or under a Strong Delusion.

What do you think they were doing in the Temples of Rome?

Are we any different than Rome? Rome vs US

Have we made gods of men?

Instead of everyone being afraid to see things a new and repent why don't we seek the truth and the righteousness of God instead of self righteous Bible thumpers who do not even know what the Bible was trying to tell you.


Certainly any statement attributed to the God of creation could be considered a command by those who love God but the statements of God are really just His explanation of how creation works. It should be self evident that no one can keep the The ten statements of God if the righteousness or righteous or Holy Spirit of God is not flowing through us.

This is where Christ comes in and the fulfillment of the prophecy of God writing upon our hearts and upon our minds. There are at least two realms spoken of in the Bible other than this place we call the material universe. One is Heaven and the other is Hell. They both operate according to precepts the seeds of which may grow in us. We will know what is growing in a people by the fruit that is produced.

This is why the "ten statements" are so important because they are explaining to us what good fruit looks like. Obviously killing, stealing, and lying are evidence of bad fruit flowing from people who do not have . But also coveting which is not desiring things like your neighbor but actually desiring what is your neighbor's.

Coveting along with keeping those ten stated precepts of the Natural Law of God is mentioned over and over by the apostles who warned the people of the New Covenant.


Peter, Paul, James, and John Warned

Peter[15], Paul[16], James[17] and John[18]all 'warned the New Covenant Church that what they were doing and not doing would reveal the truth of their claim to faith in God and His Holy Spirit. Paul warned people to test their faith[19] to make sure they were not deceived or reprobates[20].

Even John warns that we need to walk according to what Jesus showed us and confess our sins if we are to be cleansed of unrighteousness.[21] John even gives the keeping of the commandments as the rod by which we measure the truth of our faith.[22] And those who do not keep the commandments are a liar and Christ is not in them.[23] Over and over John repeats that he that "doeth not righteousness" is not born again of Christ and the Father.[24] And John warns us that we may not only be deceived but may deceive ourselves [25] warning us of the many false teachers who are "out in the world".[26]

Jude 1:16 "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage."

We are told that we are told in Jude 1:21 "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh."

The Bible from the beginning warns[27] and continues those warnings throughout the New Testament that many will be decieved thinking they are believers while in truth they are workers of iniquity.[28] Because these warnings are ignored by the modern Church, the welfare of a foolish[29] society has become a snare.

  • “It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”[30]

But many doctrines of the modern Church come into conflict with the statements of Jesus because they often suggest and even state that keeping the commandments is not important but only belief. This seems contradictory to the example and activities of the early Church because it is clear that violating those ten stated righteous precepts is primary evidence that one does not truly believe.

  1. 1.0 1.1 01697 ^רבד^ DaletBeitReish dabar \@daw-baw’\@ DaletBeitReish from 01696 meaning speak as in declare a pattern; The same letters may represent a pasture (01699) n m; AV-word 807, thing 231, matter 63, acts 51, chronicles 38, saying 25, commandment 20, misc 204; 1439
    1) speech, word, speaking, thing
    1a) speech
    1b) saying, utterance
    1c) word, words
    1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension)
    • ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
    • ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
    Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
    Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
  3. 3.0 3.1 04687 ^מִצְוָה‎^ mitsvah MemTzadikVavHey \@mits-vaw’\@ with the Hebrew letters MemTzadikVavHey from 06680; n f; AV-commandments 173, precept 4, commanded 2, law 1, ordinances 1; 181
    1) commandment
    1a) commandment (of man)
    1b) the commandment (of God)
    1c) commandment (of code of wisdom)
    • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
    • צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
    • ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
    • ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
  4. 01696 ^רבד^ dabar \@daw-bar’\@ DaletBeitReish a primitive root which is also given the Strong's number 01697; v; AV-speak 840, say 118, talk 46, promise 31, tell 25, commune 20, pronounce 14, utter 7, command 4 misc 38; 1143
    1) to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing
    1a) (Qal) to speak
    1b) (Niphal) to speak with one another, talk
    1c) (Piel)
    1c1) to speak
    1c2) to promise
    1d) (Pual) to be spoken
    1e) (Hithpael) to speak
    1f) (Hiphil) to lead away, put to flight
  5. https://biblehub.com/hebrew/haddevarim_1697.htm
    Genesis 15:1 After these things the word
    Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God
    Genesis 22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
    Genesis 24:66 Isaac all things that he had done.
    Genesis 29:13 And he told Laban all these things.
    Genesis 39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his : master's
    Genesis 40:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler
    Genesis 43:7 to the tenor of these words: could we certainly
    Genesis 44:6 unto them these same words.
    Genesis 48:1 these things that Joseph
    Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told
    Exodus 4:15 unto him, and put words in his mouth:
    Exodus 4:30 spake all the words which the LORD
    Exodus 18:19 that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
    Exodus 19:6 nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak
    Exodus 19:7 before their faces all these words which the LORD
    Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
    Exodus 24:3 and said, All the words which the LORD
    Exodus 24:8 hath made with you concerning all these words.
    Exodus 34:1 upon [these] tables the words that were in the first
    Exodus 34:27 Write thou these words: for after the tenor
    Exodus 34:27 for after the tenor of these words I have made
    Exodus 34:28 of the covenant, the ten commandments.
    Exodus 35:1 and said unto them, These [are] the words which the LORD
    Leviticus 8:36 did all things which the LORD
    Numbers 14:39 told these sayings unto all the children
    Numbers 16:31 of speaking all these words, that the ground
    Deuteronomy 1:1 These [be] the words which Moses spake
    Deuteronomy 1:18 you at that time all the things which ye should do.
    Deuteronomy 4:9 lest thou forget the things which thine eyes
    Deuteronomy 4:13 [even] ten commandments; and he wrote
    Deuteronomy 4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things : are come
    Deuteronomy 5:22 These words the LORD spake
    Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words, which I command
    Deuteronomy 9:10 of God; and on them [was written] according to all : the words, which the LORD
    Deuteronomy 10:2 on the tables the words that were in the first
    Deuteronomy 10:4 the ten commandments, which the LORD
    Deuteronomy 12:28 and hear all these words which I command
    Deuteronomy 28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words : which I command
    Deuteronomy 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come
    Deuteronomy 31:1 and spake these words unto all Israel.
    Deuteronomy 31:28 that I may speak these words in their ears,
    Deuteronomy 32:45 of speaking all these words to all Israel:
    Deuteronomy 32:46 your hearts unto all the words which I testify
    Joshua 22:30 which [were] with him, heard the words that the children
    Joshua 23:14 of all the good things which the LORD
    Joshua 24:26 wrote these words in the book
    Joshua 24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua
    Judges 2:4 spake these words unto all the children
    Judges 9:3 of Shechem all these words: and their hearts
    1 Samuel 3:18 told him every whit, and hid
    1 Samuel 11:4 and told the tidings in the ears
    1 Samuel 11:6 when he heard those tidings, and his anger
    1 Samuel 17:31 And when the words were heard
    1 Samuel 18:23 spake those words in the ears
    1 Samuel 18:26 David these words, it pleased
    1 Samuel 19:7 shewed him all those things. And Jonathan
    1 Samuel 21:13 INT: appoint David act another heart
    1 Samuel 24:16 of speaking these words unto Saul,
    1 Samuel 25:9 to Nabal according to all those words in the name
    1 Samuel 25:12 and told him all those sayings.
    1 Samuel 25:37 had told him these things, that his heart
    2 Samuel 7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
    2 Samuel 13:21 heard of all these things, he was very
    2 Samuel 14:3 put the words in her mouth.
    2 Samuel 14:19: me, and he put all these words in the mouth
    1 Kings 13:11 in Bethel: the words which he had spoken
    1 Kings 17:17 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son
    1 Kings 18:36 and [that] I have done all these things at thy word.
    1 Kings 21:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth
    1 Kings 21:27 heard those words, that he rent
    2 Kings 1:7 to meet you, and told you these words?
    2 Kings 6:12 of Israel the words that thou speakest
    2 Kings 18:27 and to thee, to speak these words?
    2 Kings 19:6 of the words which thou hast heard,
    2 Kings 22:18 of Israel, [As touching] the words which thou hast heard;
    2 Kings 23:16: who proclaimed these words.
    2 Kings 23:17 and proclaimed these things that thou hast done
    1 Chronicles 17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
    2 Chronicles 15:8 heard these words, and the prophecy
    2 Chronicles 32:1 After these things, and the establishment
    2 Chronicles 34:26 of Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;
    Ezra 7:1 Now after these things, in the reign
    Nehemiah 1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down
    Nehemiah 5:6 their cry and these words.
    Esther 2:1 After these things, when the wrath
    Esther 3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus
    Esther 9:20 wrote these things, and sent
    Job 42:7 had spoken these words unto Job,
    Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things [are] full of labour; man
    Ecclesiastes 7:21 no heed unto all words that are spoken;
    Isaiah 36:12 and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men
    Isaiah 37:6 of the words that thou hast heard,
    Isaiah 42:16 straight. These things will I do
    Jeremiah 3:12 and proclaim these words toward the north,
    Jeremiah 7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken
    Jeremiah 11:6 unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities
    Jeremiah 16:10 this people all these words, and they shall say
    Jeremiah 19:2 and proclaim there the words that I shall tell
    Jeremiah 20:1 that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
    Jeremiah 22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear
    Jeremiah 25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say
    Jeremiah 26:2 house, all the words that I command
    Jeremiah 26:7 speaking these words in the house
    Jeremiah 26:10 heard these things, then they came up
    Jeremiah 26:12 and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
    Jeremiah 26:15 me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
    Jeremiah 27:12 of Judah according to all these words, saying,
    Jeremiah 30:2 Write thee all the words that I have spoken
    Jeremiah 30:4 And these [are] the words that the LORD
    Jeremiah 34:6 spake all these words unto Zedekiah
    Jeremiah 36:2 and write therein all the words that I have spoken
    Jeremiah 36:13 declared unto them all the words that he had heard,
    Jeremiah 36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid
    Jeremiah 36:16 tell the king of all these words.
    Jeremiah 36:17 us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
    Jeremiah 36:18 them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth,
    Jeremiah 36:20 and told all the words in the ears
    Jeremiah 36:24 that heard all these words.
    Jeremiah 36:27 the roll, and the words which Baruch
    Jeremiah 36:28 in it all the former words that were in the first
    Jeremiah 38:1 heard the words that Jeremiah
    Jeremiah 38:27 him: and he told them according to all these words that the king
    Jeremiah 43:1 had sent him to them, [even] all these words,
    Jeremiah 45:1: when he had written these words in a book
    Jeremiah 51:60 upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written
    Jeremiah 51:61 and shalt read all these words;
    Daniel 12:4 shut up the words, and seal
    Daniel 12:9 Daniel: for the words [are] closed up
    Zechariah 7:7 [Should ye] not [hear] the words which the LORD
    Zechariah 7:12 the law, and the words which the LORD
    Zechariah 8:9 in these days these words by the mouth
    Zechariah 8:16 These [are] the things that ye shall do;
  6. 06235 ^רשׂע^ ‘eser \@eh’ser\@ masc. of term ^הרשׂע^ ‘asarah \@as-aw-raw’\@ from 06237; n m/f; AV-ten 172, fifteen + 02568 1, seventeen + 07651 1, ten times 1; 175
    1) ten
    1a) ten
    1b) with other numbers
  7. John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast [them] into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
  8. Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead.
  9. Ecclesiastes 8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].
    Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
    Romans 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
    Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
  10. Romans 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
  11. 03513 ^דבכ^ kabad \@kaw-bad’\@ or ^דבכ^ kabed \@kaw-bade’\@ KufBeitDalet a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 943} AV-honour 34, glorify 14, honourable 14, heavy 13, harden 7, glorious 5, sore 3, made heavy 3, chargeable 2, great 2, many 2, heavier 2, promote 2, misc 10; 116
    1) to be heavy, be weighty, be grievous, be hard, be rich, be honourable, be glorious, be burdensome, be honoured
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to be heavy
    1a2) to be heavy, be insensible, be dull
    1a3) to be honoured
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be made heavy, be honoured, enjoy honour, be made abundant
    1b2) to get oneself glory or honour, gain glory
    1c) (Piel)
    1c1) to make heavy, make dull, make insensible
    1c2) to make honourable, honour, glorify
    1d) (Pual) to be made honourable, be honoured
    1e) (Hiphil)
    1e1) to make heavy
    1e2) to make heavy, make dull, make unresponsive
    1e3) to cause to be honoured
    1f) (Hithpael)
    1f1) to make oneself heavy, make oneself dense, make oneself numerous
    1f2) to honour oneself
    See 03519 Greek Doxa 1391 See 03516 כָּבֵד‎ kabed liver 03515 כָּבֵד‎ kabed great 03514 כֹּבֶד‎ kobed heavy from 03513 כָּבַד‎ kabad honor;
  12. 06680 ^הוצ^ tsavah \@tsaw-vaw’\@ a primitive root Hebrew letters TzadikVavHey; if you add a Mem 04687 ^הוצמ^ mitsvah v; AV-command 514, charge 39, commandment 9, appoint 5, bade 3, order 3, commander 1, misc 4; 494
    1) to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order
    1a) (Piel)
    1a1) to lay charge upon
    1a2) to give charge to, give command to
    1a3) to give charge unto
    1a4) to give charge over, appoint
    1a5) to give charge, command
    1a6) to charge, command
    1a7) to charge, commission
    1a8) to command, appoint, ordain (of divine act)
    1b) (Pual) to be commanded
  13. 06673 ^וצ^ tsav \@tsav\@ or ^וצ^ tsav \@tsawv\@ from 06680; n m; AV-precept 8, commandment 1; 9
    1) command, ordinance, oracle (meaning dubious)
    1a) used in mocking mimicry of Isaiah’s words and thus not a true divine command
  14. Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
  15. “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:10, 11
    2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; curse children:"
    2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
  16. 2 Timothy 3:1 ¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. 10 ¶ But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
    Ephesians 5:1 ¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 3 ¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
    "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1 Galatians 5:15 "But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."
    1 Corinthians 6:9 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
    11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.".
  17. James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
    James 5:12 ¶ But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
  18. 1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
    1 John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
    1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
    2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
    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.
    3 John 1:3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth... 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
  19. 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?(The word reprobate is from adokimos meaning not standing the test, not approved) But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
  20. 96 ~ἀδόκιμος~ adokimos \@ad-ok’-ee-mos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 1384; adj AV-reprobate 6, castaway 1, rejected 1; 8
    1) not standing the test, not approved (See warnings)
    1a) properly used of metals and coins
    2) that which does not prove itself such as it ought
    2a) unfit for, unproved, spurious, reprobate
  21. 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth 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.
  22. 1 John 2:3 ¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
  23. 1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  24. 1 John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
    1 John 3:7 "Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
    11 ¶ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
    1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
  25. 1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
    2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
  26. 1 John 4:1 ¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
  27. Exodus 23:32, 34:12-15, 20:1-17, Deuteronomy 13:8, 17:16, Judges 2:2, 1 Samuel 8; 13:13, Proverbs 1:10-19, Proverbs 23, Psalms 69:22. See also Ezekiel 11:3-11, Micah 3:3; Exodus 16:3.
  28. 1 Corinthians 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
    Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
    1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
    Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
    Matthew 6:9, 23:9, 5:34... 20:25, Mark 10:42, Luke 4:18, 22:25, 1 Corinthians 7:21, 2 Corinthians 6:16, James 5:12, 1 Peter 2:16, Romans 7:7, 13:9, 11:9, Colossians 3:5, Hebrews 13:5, 2 Peter 2:3-14, 2 Peter 2:19, 2 Timothy 2:26,1:1, 9
  29. 1 Samuel 13:13
  30. Frederic Bastiat, 1801 – 1850, French theorist, political economist.