Indexes Search Result: indexed - commandment
MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Matthew:22:38 @ This is the first and great commandment.


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Psalms:103:18 @ To such as keep his covenant, and to those that...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Psalms:103:20 @ Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength,...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Exodus:20:6 @ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me,...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Deuteronomy:7:9 @ Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God,...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@John:13:34 @ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Mark:12:30 @ And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Mark:12:31 @ And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear...


MEMORYVERSE.txt
Found: kjv@Psalms:19:8 @ The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart:...


HITCHCOCKBIBLENAMES.txt
Found: dict:hitchcock Hakupha @ a commandment of the mouth - HITCHCOCK-H


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ CEREMONIAL LAW –– those Old Covenant commandments which regulated rituals and symbolic actions pertaining to the redemption of God's people and their separation from the unbelieving world, rather than prescriptions about matters which were intrinsically moral


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ JUDICIAL LAW –– (tradition theological expression for:) those commandments in the Mosaic law which deliver judgments on cases pertaining to socio-political relations, policy, or rule (e.g., Exodus 21-22)


THEOLOGYGLOSSARY.txt
Found: @ RESTORATIVE LAW –– those Old Covenant commandments which regulated rituals and symbolic actions pertaining to the restoration of sinners to God's favor and their separation as God's redeemed people from those still under His wrath (see "ceremonial law")


DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JUNE29 AM @ His commandments are not grievous.-strkjv@1John:5:3 strkjv@John:6:40. strkjv@1John:3:22 strkjv@Matthew:11:30. strkjv@John:14:15 strkjv@John:14:21 strkjv@Proverbs:3:13. strkjv@Proverbs:3:17. strkjv@Psalms:119:165. strkjv@Romans:7:22 strkjv@1John:3:23. strkjv@Romans:13:10.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:2:8 <1CLEMENT>@ Being adorned with a most virtuous and honorable life, ye performed all your duties in the fear of Him. The commandments and the ordinances of the Lord were written on the tablets of your hearts.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:3:4 <1CLEMENT>@ For this cause righteousness and peace stand aloof, while each man hath forsaken the fear of the Lord and become purblind in the faith of Him, neither walketh in the ordinances of His commandments nor liveth according to that which becometh Christ, but each goeth after the lusts of his evil heart, seeing that they have conceived an unrighteous and ungodly jealousy, through which also death entered into the world.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:13:3 <1CLEMENT>@ With this commandment and these precepts let us confirm ourselves, that we may walk in obedience to His hallowed words, with lowliness of mind.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:49:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let him that hath love in Christ fulfill the commandments of Christ.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:50:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Blessed were we, dearly beloved, if we should be doing the commandments of God in concord of love, to the end that our sins may through love be forgiven us.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:58:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Receive our counsel, and ye shall have no occasion of regret. For as God liveth, and the Lord Jesus Christ liveth, and the Holy Spirit, who are the faith and the hope of the elect, so surely shall he, who with lowliness of mind and instant in gentleness hath without regretfulness performed the ordinances and commandments that are given by God, be enrolled and have a name among the number of them that are saved through Jesus Christ, through whom is the glory unto Him for ever and ever. Amen.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 2Clement:3:4 <2CLEMENT>@ But wherein do we confess Him? When we do that which He saith and are not disobedient unto His commandments, and not only honor Him with our lips, but with our whole heart and with our whole mind.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 2Clement:4:5 <2CLEMENT>@ For this cause, if ye do these things, the Lord said, Though ye be gathered together with Me in My bosom, and do not My commandments, I will cast you away and will say unto you, Depart from Me, I know you not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 2Clement:6:7 <2CLEMENT>@ For, if we do the will of Christ, we shall find rest; but if otherwise, then nothing shall deliver us from eternal punishment, if we should disobey His commandments.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 2Clement:8:4 <2CLEMENT>@ Wherefore, brethren, if we shall have done the will of the Father and kept the flesh pure and guarded the commandments of the Lord, we shall receive life eternal.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 2Clement:17:3 <2CLEMENT>@ And let us not think to give heed and believe now only, while we have departed home, let us remember the commandments of the Lord, and not suffer ourselves to be dragged off the other way by our worldly lusts; but coming hither more frequently, let us strive to go forward in the commandments of the Lord, that we all having the same mind may be gathered together unto life.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 2Clement:17:6 <2CLEMENT>@ He speaketh of that day of judgment, when men shall see those among us that live ungodly lives and dealt falsely with the commandments of Jesus Christ.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:4:11 @ For the scripture saith; Woe unto them that are wise for themselves, and understanding in their own sight. Let us become spiritual, let us become a temple perfect unto God. As far as in us lies, let us exercise ourselves in the fear of God, and let us strive to keep His commandments, that we may rejoice in His ordinances.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:6:1 @ When then He gave the commandment, what saith He? Who is he that disputeth with Me? Let him oppose Me. Or who is he that goeth to law with Me? Let him draw nigh unto the servant of the Lord,


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:7:3 @ But moreover when crucified He had vinegar and gall given Him to drink. Hear how on this matter the priests of the temple have revealed. Seeing that there is a commandment in scripture, Whatsoever shall not observe the fast shall surely die, the Lord commanded, because He was in His own person about to offer the vessel of His Spirit a sacrifice for our sins, that the type also which was given in Isaac who was offered upon the alter should be fulfilled.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:7:6 @ Attend ye to the commandments which He gave. Take two goats, fair and alike, and offer them, and let the priest take the one for a whole burnt offering for sins.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:8:1 @ But what think ye meaneth the type, where the commandment is given to Israel that those men, whose sins are full grown, offer an heifer and slaughter and burn it, and then that the children take up the ashes, and cast them into vessels, and twist the scarlet wool on a tree (see here again is the type of the cross and the scarlet wool), and the hyssop, and that this done the children should sprinkle the people one by one, that they may be purified from their sins?


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:9:4 @ He saith unto them; Thus saith the Lord your God (so I find the commandment); sow not upon thorns, be ye circumcised in to your Lord. And what saith He? Be ye circumcised in the hardness of your heart; and then ye will not harden your neck. Take this again; Behold, sayith the Lord, all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in their foreskin, but this people is uncircumcised in their hearts.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:10:2 @ Yea and further He saith unto them in Deuteronomy; And I will lay as a covenant upon this people My ordinances. So then it is not a commandment of God that they should not bite with their teeth, but Moses spake it in spirit.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:10:11 @ Again Moses saith; Ye shall everything that divideth the hoof and cheweth the cud. What meaneth he? He that receiveth the food knoweth Him that giveth him the food, and being refreshed appeareth to rejoice in him. Well said he, having regard to the commandment. What then meaneth he? Cleave unto those that fear the Lord, with those who meditate in their heart on the distinction of the word which they have received, with those who tell of the ordinances of the Lord and keep them, with those who know that meditation is a work of gladness and who chew the cud of the word of the Lord. But why that which divideth the hoof? Because the righteous man both walketh in this world, and at the same time looketh for the holy world to come. Ye see how wise a lawgiver Moses was.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:10:12 @ But whence should they perceive or understand these things? Howbeit we having justly perceived the commandments tell them as the Lord willed. To this end He circumcised our ears and hearts, that we might understand these things.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:12:6 @ Yea and further though Moses gave the commandment; Ye shall not have a molten or a carved image for your God, yet he himself made one that he might show them a type of Jesus. So Moses maketh a brazen serpent, and setteth it up conspicuously, and summoneth the people by proclamation.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:16:9 @ How? Understand ye. By receiving the remission of our sins and hoping on the Name we became new, created afresh from the beginning. Wherefore God dwelleth truly in our habitation within us. How? The word of his faith, the calling of his promise, the wisdom of the ordinances, the commandments of the teaching, He Himself prophesying in us, He Himself dwelling in us, opening for us who had been in bondage unto death the door of the temple, which is the mouth, and giving us repentance leadeth us to the incorruptible temple.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:19:2 @ Thou shalt love Him that made thee, thou shalt fear Him that created thee, thou shalt glorify Him that redeemed thee from death; thou shalt be simple in heart and rich in spirit; thou shalt not cleave to those who walk the way of death; thou shalt hate everything that is not pleasing to God; thou shalt hate all hypocrisy; thou shalt never forsake the commandments of the Lord.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Barnabas:21:8 @ So long as the good vessel (of the body) is with you, be lacking in none of these things, but search them out constantly, and fulfill every commandment; for they deserve it.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Didache:1:5 @ To every man that asketh of thee give, and ask not back for the Father desireth that gifts be given to all from His own bounties. Blessed is he that giveth according to the commandment; for he is guiltless. Woe to him that receiveth; for, if a man receiveth having need, he is guiltless; but he that hath no need shall give satisfaction why and wherefore he received and being put in confinement he shall be examined concerning the deeds that he hath done, and he shall not come out thence until he hath given back the last farthing.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Didache:2:1 @ And this is the second commandment of the teaching.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Didache:4:13 @ Thou shalt never forsake the commandments of the Lord but shalt keep those things which thou hast received, neither adding to them nor taking away from them.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Didache:13:5 @ If thou makest bread, take the firstfruit and give according to the commandment.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Didache:13:7 @ yea and of money and raiment and every possession take the firstfruit, as shall seem good to thee, and give according to the commandment.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:513:3 @ "But the other stones that are brought from the dry land, I would fain know who these are, lady." She said, "Those that go to the building, and yet are not hewn, these the Lord hath approved because they walked in the uprightness of the Lord, and rightly performed His commandments."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:816:2 @ She looked upon me, and smiled, and she saith to me, "Seest thou seven women round the tower?" "I see them, lady," say I. "This tower is supported by them by commandment of the Lord.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:525:5 @ But he answered and said unto me, "Be not confounded, but strengthen thyself in my commandments which I am about to command thee. For I was sent," saith he, "that I might show thee again all the things which thou didst see before, merely the heads which are convenient for you. First of all, write down my commandments and my parables; and the other matters thou shalt write down as I shall show them to thee. The reason why," saith he, "I command thee to write down first the commandments and parables is, that thou mayest read them off-hand, and mayest be able to keep them."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:525:6 @ So I wrote down the commandments and parables, as he commanded me.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:126:2 @ Believe Him therefore, and fear Him, and in this fear be continent. Keep these things, and thou shalt cast off all wickedness from thyself, and shalt clothe thyself with every excellence of righteousness, and shalt live unto God, if thou keep this commandment."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:127:7 @ Therefore keep this commandment, as I have told thee, that thine own repentance and that of thy household may be found to be sincere, and thy heart pure and undefiled."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:128:2 @ They therefore that speak lies set the Lord at nought, and become robbers of the Lord, for they do not deliver up to Him the deposit which they received. For they received of Him a spirit free from lies. This if they shall return a lying spirit, they have defiled the commandment of the Lord and have become robbers."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:230:4 @ "Thou shalt live," saith he, "if thou keep my commandments and walk in them and whosoever shall hear these commandments and keep them, shall live unto God."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:432:4 @ But for thy former transgressions there shall be remission, if thou keepest my commandments. Yea, and all shall have remission, if they keep these my commandments, and walk in this purity."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:234:8 @ Refrain therefore from angry temper, the most evil of evil spirits. But clothe thyself in long-suffering, and resist angry temper and bitterness, and thou shalt be round in company with the holiness which is beloved of the Lord. See then that thou never neglect this commandment; for if thou master this commandment, thou shalt be able likewise to keep the remaining commandments, which I am about to give thee. Be strong in them and endowed with power; and let all be endowed with power, as many as desire to walk in them."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:135:1 @ I charged thee," saith he, "in my first commandment to guard faith and fear and temperance." "Yes, Sir," say I. "But now," saith he, "I wish to show thee their powers also, that thou mayest understand what is the power and effect of each one of them. For their effects are two fold. Now they are prescribed alike to the righteous and the unrighteous.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:236:10 @ This commandment declareth what concerneth faith, that thou mayest trust the works of the angel of righteousness, and doing them mayest live unto God. But believe that the works of the angel of wickedness are difficult; so by not doing them thou shalt live unto God."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:137:1 @ "Fear the Lord," saith he, "and keep His commandments. So keeping the commandments of God thou shalt be powerful in every deed, and thy doing shall be incomparable. For whilst thou fearest the Lord, thou shalt do all things well. But this is the fear wherewith thou oughtest to be afraid, and thou shalt be saved.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:137:4 @ Fear therefore is of two kinds. If thou desire to do evil, fear the Lord, and thou shalt not do it. If again thou desire to do good, fear the Lord and thou shalt do it. Therefore the fear of the Lord is powerful and great and glorious. Fear the Lord then, and thou shalt live unto Him; yea, and as many of them that keep His commandments as shall fear Him, shall live unto God."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:137:5 @ "Wherefore, Sir," say I, "didst thou say concerning those that keep His commandments, "They shall live unto God"?" "Because," saith he, "every creature feareth the Lord, but not every one keepeth His commandments. Those then that fear Him and keep His commandments, they have life unto God; but they that keep not His commandments have no life in them."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:138:12 @ Keep this commandment therefore. If thou do good and abstain not from it, thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all shall live unto God who act so. And again if thou do not evil, and abstain from it, thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all shall live unto God, who shall keep these commandments, and walk in them."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:346:2 @ So he completed the twelve commandments, and he saith to me; Thou hast these commandments; walk in them, and exhort thy hearers that their repentance may become pure for the rest of the days of their life.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:346:4 @ I say to him; "Sir, these commandments are great and beautiful and glorious, and are able to gladden the heart of the man who is able to observe them. But I know not whether these commandments can be kept by a man, for they are very hard."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:346:6 @ But now I say unto thee; if thou keep them not. but neglect them thou shalt not have salvation, neither thy children nor thy household, since thou hast already pronounced judgment against thyself that these commandments cannot be kept by a man."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:447:3 @ If then," he saith, "man is lord of all the creatures of God and mastereth all things, cannot he also master these commandments Aye," saith he, "the man that hath the Lord in his heart can master all things and all these commandments.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:447:4 @ But they that have the Lord on their lips, while their heart is hardened, and are far from the Lord, to them these commandments are hard and inaccessible.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:447:5 @ Therefore do ye, who are empty and fickle in the faith, set your Lord in your heart, and ye shall perceive that nothing is easier than these commandments, nor sweeter, nor more gentle.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:447:6 @ Be ye converted, ye that walk after the commandments of the devil, (the commandments which are so) difficult and bitter and wild and riotous; and fear not the devil, for there is no power in him against you.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:548:1 @ I say to him, "Sir, listen to a few words from me." "Say what thou wilt," saith he. "Man, Sir," I say, "is eager to keep the commandments of God, and there is no one that asketh not of the Lord that he may be strengthened in His commandments, and be subject to them; but the devil is hard and overmastereth them."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:649:3 @ Hear me therefore, and fear Him, Who is able to do all things, to save and to destroy, and observe these commandments, and ye shall live unto God."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:649:4 @ I say to him, "Sir, now am I strengthened in all the ordinances of the Lord, because thou art with me; and I know that thou wilt crush all the power of the devil, and we shall be masters over him, and shall prevail over all his works. And I hope, Sir, that I am now able to keep these commandments which thou hast commanded, the Lord enabling me."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:150:7 @ Take heed therefore, ye that serve God and have Him in your heart: work the "works of God being mindful of His commandments and of the promises which He made, and believe Him that He will perform them, if His commandments be kept.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:154:5 @ do no wickedness in thy life, and serve the Lord with a pure heart; observe His commandments and walk in His ordinances, and let no evil desire rise up in thy heart; but believe God. Then, if thou shalt do these things, and fear Him, and control thyself from every evil deed, thou shalt live unto God; and if thou do these things, thou shalt accomplish a great fast, and one acceptable to God.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:255:2 @ A certain man had an estate, and many slaves, and a portion of his estate he planted as a vineyard; and choosing out a certain slave who was trusty and well-pleasing (and) held in honor, he called him to him and saith unto him; "Take this vineyard which I have planted, and fence it till I come, but do nothing else to the vineyard. Now keep this my commandment, and thou shalt be free in my house." Then the master of the servant went away to travel abroad.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:255:7 @ And he saith to them; "I promised this servant his freedom, if he should keep the commandment which I commanded him; but he kept my commandment and did a good work besides to my vineyard, and pleased me greatly. For this work therefore which he has done, I desire to make him joint-heir with my son, because, when the good thought struck him, he did not neglect it, but fulfilled it."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:356:2 @ "I will explain everything to thee," saith he; "and will show thee whatsoever things I shall speak with thee. Keep the commandments of the Lord, and thou shalt be well-pleasing to God, and shalt be enrolled among the number of them that keep His commandments.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:356:3 @ But if thou do any good thing outside the commandment of God, thou shalt win for thyself more exceeding glory, and shalt be more glorious in the sight of God than thou wouldest otherwise have been. If then, while thou keepest the commandments of God, thou add these services likewise, thou shalt rejoice, if thou observe them according to my commandment."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:356:5 @ This fasting," saith he, "if the commandments of the Lord are kept, is very good. This then is the way, that thou shalt keep this fast which thou art about to observe].


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:558:3 @ and the fences are the holy angels of the Lord who keep together His people; and the weeds, which are plucked up from the vineyard, are the transgressions of the servants of God; and the dainties which He sent to him from the feast are the commandments which He gave to His people through His Son; and the friends and advisers are the holy angels which were first created; and the absence of the master is the time which remaineth over until His coming."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:161:1 @ As I sat in my house, and glorified the Lord for all things that I had seen, and was considering concerning the commandments, how that they were beautiful and powerful and gladsome and glorious and able to save a man's soul, I said within myself; "Blessed shall I be, if I walk in these commandments; yea, and whosoever shall walk in them shall be blessed."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:161:2 @ As I spake these things within myself, I see him suddenly seated by me, and saying as follows; "Why art thou of a doubtful mind concerning the commandments, which I commanded thee? They are beautiful. Doubt not at all; but clothe thyself in the faith of the Lord, and thou shalt walk in them. For I will strengthen thee in them.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:161:3 @ These commandments are suitable for those who meditate repentance; for if they walk not in them, their repentance is in vain.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:161:4 @ Ye then that repent, cast away the evil doings of this world which crush you; and, by putting on every excellence of righteousness, ye shall be able to observe these commandments, and to add no more to your sins. If then ye add no further sin at all, ye will depart from your former sins. Walk then in these my commandments, and ye shall live unto God. These things have all been told you from me."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:262:2 @ For they forget the commandments of the living God, and walk in vain deceits and acts of self-indulgence, and are destroyed by this angel, some of them unto death, and others unto corruption."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:166:6 @ I say to him; "Sir, be thou with me, and I shall be able to endure all affliction easily." "I will be with thee," saith he; "and I will ask the angel that punisheth to afflict thee more lightly; but thou shalt be afflicted for a short time, and thou shalt be restored again to thy house. Only continue to be humble and to minister unto the Lord with a pure heart, thou and thy children and thy house, and walk in my commandments which I command thee, and thus it will be possible for thy repentance to be strong and pure.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:166:7 @ And if thou keep these commandments with thy household, all affliction shall hold aloof from thee; yea, and affliction," saith he, "shall hold aloof from all whosoever shall walk in these my commandments."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:369:8 @ But they that gave them up green just as they received them, are sober and righteous men, who walked altogether in a pure heart and have kept the commandments of the Lord. But all else thou shalt know, when I have examined these rods that have been planted and watered."


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:672:6 @ But thou seest that many of them have indeed repented from the time when thou spakest to them my commandments; yea, and (others) still will repent. And as many as shall not repent, have lost their life; but as many of them as repented, became good; and their dwelling was placed within the first walls, and some of them even ascended into the tower. Thou seest then," saith he, "that repentance from sins bringeth life, but not to repent bringeth death.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:773:5 @ Yet these also, when they heard my commandments, being good, purified themselves and repented quickly. They have their habitation, therefore, within the tower. But if any one shall again turn to dissension, he shall be cast out from the tower and shall lose his life.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:773:6 @ Life is for all those that keep the commandments of the Lord. But in the commandments there is nothing about first places, or about glory of any kind, but about long-suffering and humility in man. In such men, therefore, is the life of the Lord, but in factious and lawless men is death.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:874:2 @ Many then when they heard my commandments repented. As many then as repented, have their abode within the tower. But some of them altogether stood aloof These then have no repentance; for by reason of their business affairs they blasphemed the Lord and denied Him. So they lost their life for the wickedness that they committed.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:1177:3 @ He answered and said unto me; "As many," saith he, "as shall repent from their whole heart and shall cleanse themselves from all the evil deeds aforementioned, and shall add nothing further to their sins, shall receive healing from the Lord for their former sins, unless they be double-minded concerning these commandments, and they shall live unto God. [But as many," saith he, "as shall add to their sins and walk in the lusts of this world, shall condemn themselves to death.]


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:1177:4 @ But do thou walk in my commandments, and live [unto God; yea, and as many as shall walk in them and shall do rightly, shall live unto God."]


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:178:1 @ After I had written down the commandments and parables of the shepherd, the angel of repentance, he came to me and saith to me; "I wish to show thee all things that the Holy Spirit, which spake with thee in the form of the Church, showed unto thee. For that Spirit is the Son of God.


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:13[90^:5 @ "Listen," saith he. "The name of the Son of God is great and incomprehensible, and sustaineth the whole world. If then all creation is sustained by the Son of God, what thinkest thou of those that are called by Him, and bear the name of the Son of God, and walk according to His commandments?


EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: Hermas:23100:2 @ they that have the small clefts, these are they that have aught against one another, and from their backbitings they are withered in the faith; but many of these repented Yea, and the rest shall repent, when they hear my commandments; for their backbitings are but small, and they shall quickly repent.


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Found: Hermas:27[104_:2 @ Such as these then dwell without doubt in the kingdom of God, because they defiled the commandments of God in nothing, but continued as babes all the days of their life in the same mind.


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Found: Hermas:33110:3 @ "Listen now," said he, "concerning them. These are they that have heard my commandments now, and have practiced repentance with their whole heart. So when the Lord saw that their repentance was good and pure, and that they could continue therein, he ordered their former sins to be blotted out. These shapes then were their former sins, and they have been chiseled away that they might not appear."


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Found: Hermas:1111:2 @ "I delivered thee," said he, "and thy house to this shepherd, that thou mightest be protected by him." "True, Sir," I said "If therefore," said he, "thou desirest to be protected from all annoyance and all cruelty, to have also success in every good work and word, and all the power of righteousness, walk in his commandments, which I have given thee, and thou shalt be able to get the mastery over all wickedness.


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Found: Hermas:1111:3 @ For if thou keep his commandments, all evil desire and the sweetness of this world shall be subject unto thee; moreover success shall attend thee in every good undertaking. Embrace his gravity and self-restraint, and tell it out unto all men that he is held in great honor and dignity with the Lord, and is a ruler of great authority, and powerful in his office. To him alone in the whole world hath authority over repentance been assigned. Seemeth he to thee to be powerful? Yet ye despise the gravity and moderation which he useth towards you."


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Found: Hermas:2112:4 @ "Continue therefore," said he, "in this ministry, and complete it unto the end. For whosoever fulfill his commandments shall have life; yea such a man (shall have) great honor with the Lord. But whosoever keep not his commandments, fly from their life, and oppose him, and follow not his commandments, but deliver themselves over to death; and each one becometh guilty of his own blood. But I bid thee obey these commandments, and thou shalt have a remedy for thy sins.


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Found: Hermas:3113:1 @ "Moreover, I have sent these virgins unto thee, that they may dwell with thee; for I have seen that they are friendly towards thee. Thou hast them therefore as helpers, that thou mayest be the better able to keep his commandments; for it is impossible that these commandments be kept without the help of these virgins. I see too that they are glad to be with thee. But I will charge them that they depart not at all from thy house.


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Found: Hermas:3113:4 @ He saith unto the shepherd, "I perceive," saith he, "that he wishes to live as the servant of God, and that he will keep these commandments, and will place these virgins in a clean habitation."


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Found: Hermas:4114:1 @ He said then to me, "Quit you like a man in this ministry; declare to every man the mighty works of the Lord, and thou shalt have favor in this ministry. Whosoever therefore shall walk in these commandments, shall live and be happy in his life; but whosoever shall neglect them, shall not live, and shall be unhappy in his life.


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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:9:2 @ So then ye are all companions in the way, carrying your God and your shrine, your Christ and your holy things, being arrayed from head to foot in the commandments of Jesus Christ. And I too, taking part in the festivity, am permitted by letter to bear you company and to rejoice with you, that ye set not your love on anything after the common life of men, but only on God.


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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:4:1 @ It is therefore meet that we not only be called Christians, but also be such; even as some persons have the bishop's name on their lips, but in everything act apart from him. Such men appear to me not to keep a good conscience, for as much as they do not assemble themselves together lawfully according to commandment.


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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:1:2 @ whose silence is more powerful than others speech. For he is attuned in harmony with the commandments, as a lyre with its strings. Wherefore my soul blesseth his godly mind, for I have found that it is virtuous and perfect--even the imperturbable and calm temper which he hath, while living in all godly forbearance.


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Found: IgnatiusRomans:prologue:1 @ Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, unto her that hath found mercy in the bountifulness of the Father Most High and of Jesus Christ His only Son; to the church that is beloved and enlightened through the will of Him who willed all things that are, by faith and love towards Jesus Christ our God; even unto her that hath the presidency in the country of the region of the Romans, being worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of felicitation, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy in purity, and having the presidency of love, walking in the law of Christ and bearing the Father's name; which church also I salute in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of the Father; unto them that in flesh and spirit are united unto His every commandment, being filled with the grace of God without wavering, and filtered clear from every foreign stain; abundant greeting in Jesus Christ our God in blamelessness.


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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:8:1 @ But shun divisions, as the beginning of evils. Do ye all follow your bishop, as Jesus Christ followed the Father, and the presbytery as the Apostles; and to the deacons pay respect, as to God's commandment. Let no man do aught of things pertaining to the Church apart from the bishop. Let that be held a valid eucharist which is under the bishop or one to whom he shall have committed it.


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Found: Polycarp:2:2 @ Now He that raised Him from the dead will raise us also; if we do His will and walk in His commandments and love the things which He loved, abstaining from all unrighteousness, covetousness, love of money, evil speaking, false witness; not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing or blow for blow or cursing for cursing;


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Found: Polycarp:3:3 @ which is the mother of us all, while hope followeth after and love goeth before--love toward God and Christ and toward our neighbor. For if any man be occupied with these, he hath fulfilled the commandment of righteousness; for he that hath love is far from all sin.


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Found: Polycarp:4:1 @ But the love of money is the beginning of all troubles. Knowing therefore that we brought nothing into the world neither can we carry anything out, let us arm ourselves with the armor of righteousness, and let us teach ourselves first to walk in the commandment of the Lord;


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Found: Polycarp:5:1 @ Knowing then that God is not mocked, we ought to walk worthily of His commandment and His glory.


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Found: Polycarp:6:3 @ Let us therefore so serve Him with fear and all reverence, as He himself gave commandment and the Apostles who preached the Gospel to us and the prophets who proclaimed beforehand the coming of our Lord; being zealous as touching that which is good, abstaining from offenses and from the false brethren and from them that bear the name of the Lord in hypocrisy, who lead foolish men astray.


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL commandment @ (5)


NGRAMGOSPELUNIGRAM.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL commandments @ (4)


NEWAUDIOLINKS.txt
Found: http://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?currSection=sermonstopic&keyworddesc=Ten+Commandments&keyword=commandments @ Ten Commandments - SERMONAUDIO


BIBLELAW.txt
Found: strkjv@Deuteronomy:27:10 @ Do His commandments and statutes - OldTestamentLaw - ScripturalOrder


WEBSTUDYLINKS.txt
Found: STUDYTOOL @ StrongConcordance


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: commandment @ kjv@CONCORD:commandment


KJVWORDCONCORDANCE.txt
Found: commandments @ kjv@CONCORD:commandments


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:14:15 @ Jesus By Command - keep my commandments


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:19:17-19 @ Jesus By Command - keep the commandments...hou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.


JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:15:3 @ Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? - Jesus By Question