The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
Fortune Cookie Commandments
(In biblical order)- Don't be wicked in the sight of the Lord.
- Be holy.
- Don't be stiffnecked.
- Don't observe times.
- Don't be a charmer.
- Be perfect.
- Don't remove your neighbor's landmark.
- Rejoice.
- Take twelve stones from the Jordan River as a memorial forever.
- Show your children the twelve stones. (To remind them about how they should fear God forever.)
- Don't touch the ark.
- Don't touch the Lord's anointed.
- Remove the filthiness from the holy place.
- Kiss the Son.
- Stand in awe.
- Commune with your own heart upon your bed.
- Offer the sacrifices of righteousness.
- Walk around Zion.
- Listen to Psalm 49.
- Don't harden your heart.
- Make a loud noise.
- Don't be afraid of sudden fear. (You have nothing to fear but fear itself.)
- Don't be afraid of the desolation of the wicked.
- Keep an eye on your heart.
- Let your fountains run into the streets.
- Look straight ahead.
- Watch your step.
- Make no right or left turns.
- If you step in something evil, remove your foot.
- Drink from your own well.
- Don't share your fountains with strangers.
- Let your fountain be blessed.
- Learn from the ant, you sluggard.
- Don't reprove a scorner.
- Teach a just man.
- Smite a scorner.
- When you eat dinner with an important person, think about what to say and don't overeat.
- Don't eat bread with anyone who has an evil eye.
- Don't look at the wine while it is red. (Or you'll see strange women and say perverse things.)
- Kiss on the lips whoever has the right answer.
- Complete your outdoor work before building your house.
- Stay out of your neighbor's house.
- Whip horses, bridle donkeys, and beat fools with a rod.
- When disaster strikes, don't ask your brother for help. Ask your neighbor instead.
- Don't be overly wicked.
- Don't be overly righteous.
- Don't stand in an evil thing.
- Always have some ointment on your head.
- Cast your bread upon the waters.
- Give some to seven or eight.
- Wash yourself.
- Seek judgment.
- Bind up the testimony.
- Seal the law among Isaiah's disciples.
- Howl.
- Don't trust anyone. Not even your family, friends, or neighbors.
- Don't be afraid of heathens.
- Don't worry about the signs of heaven.
- Don't cry.
- Keep yourself and your daughters busy.
- Don't commit abominations in front of God.
- Deal truly.
- Cast away the abominations of your eyes.
- Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
- Sanctify a fast.
- Call a solemn assembly.
- Blow a trumpet in Zion.
- Sound an alarm on God's holy mountain.
- Sanctify the congregation.
- Offer your body as a sacrifice to God.
- Be transformed by renewing your mind.
- Be fervent in spirit.
- Be patient in tribulation.
- Agree with everyone about everything.
- Hang out with the little people.
- Please your neighbor.
- Don't glory in men.
- Purge out the old leaven and become a new lump.
- Don't murmur.
- Don't offend Jews, Gentiles, or the church.
- Be children in malice.
- If you are ignorant, stay ignorant.
- Do everything decently and in order.
- Greet each other with a holy kiss.
- Cleanse yourself of all filthiness of flesh and spirit.
- Be of good comfort.
- Be led by the Spirit. (If you're led by the spirit, you don't have to follow the law.)
- Don't use your liberty to satisfy the flesh.
- If you bite and devour one another, make sure you don't get eaten yourself.
- Walk in the spirit. (If you do, you'll never fulfill the lusts of the flesh.)
- Prove your own work.
- Share good things with your teacher.
- Don't joke.
- Give thanks.
- Don't hang out with the children of disobedience. (e.g., whoremongers, unclean, covetous idolaters)
- Walk as children of light.
- Prove what is acceptable to the Lord.
- Don't have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.
- Reprove the unfruitful works of darkness.
- Don't talk about the secret things done by the unfruitful works of darkness.
- Wake up.
- Arise from the dead.
- Walk circumspectly.
- Redeem the time. (Because the days are evil.)
- Talk to yourself using psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
- Submit yourselves to one another.
- Beware of dogs.
- Stand fast in the Lord.
- Let everyone know how moderate you are.
- Don't worry.
- Seek things that are above, not on things on the earth.
- Mortify your members.
- Don't be inordinately affectionate.
- Don't be unclean.
- Walk in wisdom toward nonbelievers.
- Comfort one another with the words in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.
- Don't sleep.
- Warn the unruly.
- Don't quench the Spirit.
- Don't lay your hands suddenly on anyone.
- Keep yourself pure.
- Try to be godly.
- Hold on to eternal life.
- Partake in the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.
- Don't be ashamed of the author of Second Timothy.
- Hold fast to the words of the author of Second Timothy.
- Endure hardness.
- Study to show that you are approved by God. (Rightly dividing the word of truth, so you won't have to be ashamed.)
- Meekly instruct those that oppose themselves. (So they can free themselves from the the snare of the devil.)
- Watch everything.
- Be an evangelist.
- Prove your ministry.
- Rebuke the Cretans. (Because the people who live on the island of Crete are all liars, evil beasts, and slow bellies.)
- Tell young men to be sober-minded.
- Don't let anyone despise you.
- Don't lose your confidence.
- Lift up your hands and knees.
- Don't forget to entertain strangers. (Some have unknowingly entertained strangers.)
- Make straight paths for your feet.
- Don't make a mistake.
- Don't be filthy and naughty.
- Receive with meekness the planted word.
- Purify your heart.
- Be afflicted.
- Grudge not.
- If you are merry, sing psalms.
- Don't fashion yourself according to your ignorant former lusts.
- Gird up the loins of your mind.
- Desire the sincere milk of the word.
- Be pitiful.
- Everyone should be subject to everyone else.
- Test spirits to see if they are from God.
- Save others by pulling them out of the fire, while hating their garments that are spotted by the flesh.
- Hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. Genesis 38:7
Ye shall be holy men unto me. Exodus 22:31I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy. ... Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. Leviticus 11:44-45
Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. Leviticus 19:2
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy. Leviticus 20:7
Ye shall be holy unto me. Leviticus 20:26
Sanctify now yourselves.... 2 Chronicles 29:5
God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 1 Thessalonians 4:7
Follow ... holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Hebrews 12:14
Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16
Be no more stiffnecked. Deuteronomy 10:16Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were. 2 Chronicles 30:8
There shall not be found among you ... an observer of times. Deuteronomy 18:10Manasseh ... did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. ... For he ... observed times. 2 Chronicles 22:1-6
There shall not be found among you ... a charmer. Deuteronomy 18:10-11
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 18:13Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Matthew 4:48
Be perfect. 2 Corinthians 13:11
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Deuteronomy 19:14Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. Deuteronomy 27:17
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the old landmark. Proverbs 23:10
Thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee. Deuteronomy 26:11Rejoice with trembling. Psalm 2:11
Rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. Psalm 32:11
Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous. Psalm 33:1
Rejoice before him. Psalm 68:4
Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous. Psalm 97:12
Rejoice. Psalm 98:4
Be glad and rejoice. Joel 2:21
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God. Joel 2:23
Be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. Zephaniah 3:14
Rejoice, O daughter of Zion. Zechariah 2:10
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Zechariah 9:9
Rejoicing in hope. Romans 12:12
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4
Rejoice evermore. 1 Thessalonians 5:16
Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day. Joshua 4:3-9
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever. Joshua 4:20-24
The anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God. 1 Chronicles 13:10
Touch not mine anointed. 1 Chronicles 16:22, Psalm 105:15
Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 2 Chronicles 29:5b
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Psalm 2:12
Stand in awe. Psalm 4:4Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. Psalm 33:8
Commune with your own heart upon your bed. Psalm 4:4
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Psalm 4:5
Walk about Zion. Psalm 48:12
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world Psalm 49:1
Harden not your heart. Psalm 95:8
Make a loud noise. Psalm 98:4
Be not afraid of sudden fear. Proverbs 3:25
Be not afraid ... of the desolation of the wicked. Proverbs 3:25
Keep thy heart with all diligence. Proverbs 4:23
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Proverbs 5:16
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Proverbs 4:25
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Proverbs 4:26
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. Proverbs 4:27
Remove thy foot from evil. Proverbs 4:27
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Proverbs 5:15
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Proverbs 5:17
Let thy fountain be blessed. Proverbs 5:18
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. Proverbs 6:6-8
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Proverbs 9:8
Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. Proverbs 9:9
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware. Proverbs 19:25
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.Proverbs 23:1-3
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats. Proverbs 23:6
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Proverbs 23:31-33
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer. Proverbs 24:26
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Proverbs 24:27
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. Proverbs 25:17
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. Proverbs 26:3
Neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. Proverbs 27:10
Be not over much wicked. Ecclesiastes 7:17
Be not righteous over much. Ecclesiastes 7:16
Stand not in an evil thing. Ecclesiastes 8:3
Let thy head lack no ointment. Ecclesiastes 9:8
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Ecclesiastes 11:1
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. Ecclesiastes 11:2
Wash you, make you clean. Isaiah 1:16Cleanse your hands, ye sinners. James 4:8
Seek judgment. Isaiah 1:17
Bind up the testimony. Isaiah 8:16
Seal the law among my disciples. Isaiah 8:16
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Isaiah 13:6Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. Isaiah 14:31
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste. Isaiah 23:1
Howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. Isaiah 23:6
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. Jeremaiah 25:34
Howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled. Jeremaiah 48:20
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges. Jeremaiah 49:3
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her. Jeremaiah 51:8
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! Ezekiel 30:2
Howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. Joel 1:5
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers. Joel 1:11
Howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth. Joel 1:13
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. Zephaniah 1:11
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. James 5:1
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord. Jeremiah 9:4-6Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide. Micah 7:5
Be not afraid of them [heathens]; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Jeremiah 10:5
Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. Jeremiah 10:2
Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. Jeremiah 31:16
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom ... abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Ezekiel 14:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom ... they .... committed abomination before me. Ezekiel 14:49-50
If a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right ... to deal truly. Ezekiel 18:5-8
Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes. Ezekiel 20:7
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Joel 1:8Mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. James 4:9
Sanctify ye a fast. Joel 1:14Sanctify a fast. Joel 2:15
Call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God. Joel 1:14Call a solemn assembly. Gather the people ... assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Joel 2:15-16
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened. Joel 3:11-12
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired. Zephanaiah 2:3
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion. Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion. Joel 2:15-16
Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Joel 2:15-16
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened. Joel 3:11-12
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired. Zephanaiah 2:3
Sanctify the congregation. Joel 2:16
Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God. Romans 12:1
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2
Be ... fervent in spirit. Romans 12:10-11
Be ... patient in tribulation. Romans 12:10-12
Be of the same mind one toward another. Romans 12:16All speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Corinthians 1:10
Be of one mind. 2 Corinthians 13:11
Stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. Phillipians 1:27
Be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Phillipians 2:2
Do all things without ... disputings. Phillipians 2:14
Be ye all of one mind. 1 Peter 3:8
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Romans 12:16
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. Romans 15:2
Let no man glory in men. 1 Corinthians 3:21
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. 1 Corinthians 5:7
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 1 Corinthians 10:10Do all things without murmurings. Philippians 2:14
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 1 Corinthians 10:28
Howbeit in malice be ye children. 1 Corinthians 14:20
If any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. 1 Corinthians 14:38
Let all things be done decently and in order. 1 Corinthians 14:40
Greet ye one another with an holy kiss. 1 Corinthians 16:20Greet one another with an holy kiss. 2 Corinthians 13:12
Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. 1 Thessalonians 5:26
Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. 1 Peter 5:14
Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 7:1
Be of good comfort. 2 Corinthians 13:11Comfort your hearts. 2 Thessalonians 2:17
If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Galatians 5:18
Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh. Galatians 5:13
If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. Galatians 5:15
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:16
Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. Galatians 6:4
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Galatians 6:6
Let it not be once named among you ... jesting. Ephesians 5:3-4
Neither ... but rather giving of thanks. Ephesians 5:4Be ye thankful. Colossians 3:15
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18
I exhort therefore, that ... and giving of thanks. 1 Timothy 2:1
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. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. Ephesians 5:7
Walk as children of light. Ephesians 5:8
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. Ephesians 5:10
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. Ephesians 5:11-12
Awake thou that sleepest ... and Christ shall give thee light. Ephesians 5:14
Arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Ephesians 5:14
Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise Ephesians 5:15
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:16Redeeming the time. Colossians 4:5
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Ephesians 5:19
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Ephesians 5:21
Beware of dogs. Philiippians 3:2
Stand fast in the Lord. Philiippians 4:4
Let your moderation be known unto all men. Philiippians 4:5
Be careful for nothing. Philiippians 4:6
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:1-2
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth. Colossians 3:5
...inordinate affection ... For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience Colossians 3:5-6
...uncleanness ...For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. Colossians 3:5-6God hath not called us unto uncleanness. 1 Thessalonians 4:7
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without. Colossians 4:5
Comfort one another with these words [in the previous three verses]. 1 Thessalonians 4:18For 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
Let us not sleep, as do others. 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Warn them that are unruly. 1 Thessalonians 5:14
Quench not the Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 5:19
Lay hands suddenly on no man. 1 Timothy 5:22
Keep thyself pure. 1 Timothy 5:22
Follow after ... godliness. 1 Timothy 6:11
Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 1 Timothy 6:12
Be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. 2 Timothy 1:8Endure afflictions. 2 Timothy 4:5
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner. 2 Timothy 1:8
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 1:13The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 2 Timothy 2:2
Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. 2 Timothy 2:7
Of these things put them in remembrance. 2 Timothy 2:14
Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 2:3
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2 Timothy 2:25-26
Watch thou in all things 2 Timothy 4:5
Do the work of an evangelist. 2 Timothy 4:5
Make full proof of thy ministry. 2 Timothy 4:5
The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. Titus 1:12
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Titus 2:6
Let no man despise thee. Titus 2:15
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. Hebrews 10:35
lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. Hebrews 12:12
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2
Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Hebrews 12:12-13
Do not err, my beloved brethren. James 1:16
Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. James 1:21
Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21
Purify your hearts, ye double minded. James 4:8
Be afflicted. James 4:9
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned James 5:9
Is any merry? let him sing psalms. James 5:13
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance. 1 Peter 1:14
Gird up the loins of your mind. 1 Peter 1:13
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. 1 Peter 2:2
Be pitiful. 1 Peter 3:8
Yea, all of you be subject one to another 1 Peter 5:5
Try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1
Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Jude 23
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22