JESUS' COMMANDS

"The Top Forty"

  1. Obey my commandments - Jn 14:15,21,23 II Jn 6

  2. Love God and others - Jn 15:12 Mt 22:37-40

  3. Go and preach to all the world - Mk 16:15 Mt 28:19

  4. Don't delay, do it now - Jn 4:35, 9:4, 12:35

  5. Take nothing for your journey - Lk 9:3, 10:4

  6. Don't work for food - Jn 6:27, Mt 6:24-33, Lk 12:29

  7. Work for me & my kingdom - Mt 11:28-30 Lk 12:31

  8. Sell all that you own - Lk 11:41, 12:33, 18:22

  9. Don't store things that you're not using - Mt 6:19

  10. Don't charge for what you do - Mt 10:8

  11. Give to God what belongs to God - Lk 20:25, Mt 22:21

  12. Don't waste time on argumentative people - Mt 7:6

  13. Invite the poor to eat with you - Lk 14:12-14

  14. Give to anyone who asks - Lk 6:30, Mk 6:37

  15. If you pray, fast, or give, do it secretly - Mt 6:1-11

  16. Don't use vain repetitions when praying - Mt 6:7

  17. Don't advertise healings - Mt 9:30, 12:16

  18. Take the lowest position in meetings - Lk 14:8-10

  19. Don't be called Father, Mister, etc. - Mt 23:9-10

  20. Beware of hypocrisy and greed - Lk 12:1, 15

  21. Take up your cross and follow me - Mk 8:34

  22. Live in me, and live in my love - Jn 15:4, 9

  23. Eat whatever people give you - Lk 10:7

  24. Rejoice when you are persecuted - Lk 6:23

  25. Move to another city if persecuted - Mt 10:23

  26. Love, bless, and pray for your enemies - Lk 6:27-29

  27. Do to others as you'd have them do to you - Lk 6:31

  28. Be agreeable with your adversaries - Lk 12:58, Mt 5: 25

  29. Forgive others - Mk 11:25-26, Mt 6:12, Lk 6:37

  30. Cut off your hand if it offends you - Mk 9:43

  31. Don't be afraid of people - Lk 12:4-5

  32. Let the dead bury the dead - Mt 8:22

  33. Rebuke a brother if he sins - Lk 17:3, Mt 18:15-17

  34. When you judge, do it fairly - Jn 7:24

  35. You must be born again- Jn 3:3, Lk 18:17, Mk 10:15

  36. Don't make promises for any reason - Mt 5:34-37

  37. Don't sell things in God's house - Jn 2:16

  38. Don't forbid others to preach Christ - Lk 9:50

  39. Teach all nations to obey these rules - Mt 28:20

  40. When you have done all these things, say, we have only done that which was our duty to do - Lk 17:10

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