29 April 2015

EJ&T - 1 Thessalonians: Be quiet, mind your own business, and know how to possess your vessel

In the Every Jot and Tittle project, I am listing all of the Bible's commandments from Genesis to Revelation, in accordance with Jesus's words in Matthew 5:18-19. I have no idea how many commandments I'll find, but Jewish tradition claims there are 613. See here for a list of those that I've found so far.

  1. Know how to possess your vessel in sanctification and honor.

    2. For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification ... That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God. 1 Thessalonians 4:2-5

  2. Don't despise.

    3. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 4:8

  3. Be quiet.

    4. Study to be quiet. 1 Thessalonians 4:11

  4. Mind your own business.

    5. Do your own business. 1 Thessalonians 4:11

  5. Work with your own hands.

    6. Work with your own hands, as we commanded you. 1 Thessalonians 4:11

  6. Comfort one another with the words in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.

    7. Comfort one another with these words [in the previous three verses]. 1 Thessalonians 4:18

    For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17

    Comfort yourselves together. 1 Thessalonians 5:11

  7. Don't sleep.

    8. Let us not sleep, as do others. 1 Thessalonians 5:6

  8. Be sober.

    9. Be sober. ... Let us, who are of the day, be sober. 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8

    Be sober. 1 Timothy 1:13

    The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober. 1 Peter 4:7

    Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:8

  9. Know, esteem, and love your religious leaders.

    10. Know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13

  10. Warn the unruly.

    11. Warn them that are unruly. 1 Thessalonians 5:14

  11. Comfort the feeble-minded.

    12. comfort the feebleminded 1 Thessalonians 5:14

  12. Support the weak.

    13. Support the weak. 1 Thessalonians 5:14

  13. Be patient with everybody.

    14. Be patient toward all men. 1 Thessalonians 5:14

    Follow after ... patience. 1 Timothy 6:11

    Be ... patient. 2 Timothy 2:24

  14. Don't quench the Spirit.

    15. Quench not the Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 5:19

  15. Don't despise prophesyings.

    16. Despise not prophesyings. 1 Thessalonians 5:20

  16. Prove all things.

    17. Prove all things. 1 Thessalonians 5:21

  17. Hold fast to that which is good.

    18. Hold fast that which is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:21

  18. Don't do anything that appears to be evil.

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

  19. Read 1 Thessalonians to all the holy people.

    20. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. 1 Thessalonians 5:27
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Stephen said...

I think I can use 1 Thessalonians 4:11 on my dental students. Every now and then we have a little "intellectual honesty" problem. If we can give them biblical warnings, maybe we can apply biblical punishments!
Steve Weeks

Thu Apr 30, 07:00:00 AM 2015

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