Instructions to Believers

BY: PAUL MOONEY

1. Abstain from all appearances of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22).

2. Abstain from all fleshly lusts (1 Peter 2:11).

3. Avoid troublemakers (Romans 16:17).

4. Avoid profane and vain babblings (1 Timothy 6:20).

5. Avoid false science (1 Timothy 6:20).

6. Avoid foolish questions (Titus 3:9).

7. Avoid arguments about the law (Titus 3:9).

8. Be reconciled to a brother (Matthew 5:24).

9. Be wise as serpents (Matthew 10:16).

10. Be harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16).

11. Be thankful (Colossians 3:15).

12. Be patient toward all men (1 Thessalonians 5:14; 2 Timothy 2:24). 13. Be ready to give an answer of the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15).

14. Be transformed (Romans 12:2).

15. Be patient in tribulation (Romans 12:12).

16. Be children in (avoiding) malice (1 Corinthians 14:20).

17. Be men in understanding (1 Corinthians 14:20).

18. Be steadfast (1 Corinthians 15:58).

19. Be unmovable (1 Corinthians 15:58).

20. Be always abounding in God’s work (1 Corinthians 15:58).

21. Be of one mind (Romans 12:16).

22. Be separate from the unclean (2 Corinthians 6:17).

23. Be angry and sin not (Ephesians 4:26).

24. Be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18).

25. Be anxious for nothing (Philippians 4:6).

26. Be an example to other believers (1 Timothy 4:12).

27. Be gentle to all men (2 Timothy 2:24).

28. Be ready to teach (2 Timothy 2:24).

29. Be content with what you have (Hebrews 13:5).

30. Be vigilant (1 Peter 5:8).

31. Do not be like the hypocrites in prayer (Matthew 6:5).

32. Do not be afraid of men (Luke 12:4).

33. Do not be conformed to this world (Romans 12:2).

34. Do not be children in understanding (1 Corinthians 14:20). 35. Do not be deceived by evil companions (1 Corinthians 15:33).

36. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14-18). 37. Do not be drunk with wine (Ephesians 5a8). 38. Do not be weary in well-doing (2 Thessalonians 3:13). 39. Do not be slothful (Hebrews 6:12). ;o. Do not be influenced by strange doctrines (Hebrews 13:9).

41. Beware of false prophets (Matthew 7:15; Philippians 3:2).

42. Beware of (evil) men (Matthew 10:17). 43. Beware of covetousness (Luke 12:15). 44. Beware of backsliding (2 Peter 3:17).

45. Do not bid false teachers Godspeed (2 John 10, 11). 46. Bring up children in the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). 47. Cast your cares upon God (1 Peter 5:7).

48. Have confidence in God (Hebrews 10:357.000′

49. Come out from among the world (2 Corinthians 6:17). 50. Count it joy when you are tempted (James 1:2).

51. Treat others as you expect to be treated (Matthew 7:12). 52. Desire the milk of the Word (1 Peter 2:2).

53. Do all to God’s glory (1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:17, 23). 54. Do all things without murmuring or disputing (Philippians 2:14). 55. Earnestly contend for the faith (Jude 3). 56. Give no place to Satan (Ephesians 4:27). 57. Give thanks (Ephesians 5:20; Philippians 4:6). 58. Give time to reading (1 Timothy 4:13). 59. Give no offense (1 Corinthians 10:32). 6o. Give freely (2 Corinthians 9:6, 7). 61. Give as God has prospered (1 Corinthians 16:2). 62. Give willingly (2 Corinthians 8:12). 63. Give purposely (2 Corinthians 9:7). 64. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30). 65. Grow in grace (2 Peter 3:18).

66. Have no fellowship with darkness (Ephesians 5:11). 67. Have compassion (Jude 22). 68. Have a good conscience (1 Peter 3:16). 69. Hold forth the Word of life (Philippians 2:16). 70. Hold fast sound words (2 Timothy 1:13). 71. Honor fathers (Ephesians 6:2). 72. Honor mothers (Matthew 19:19). 73. Honor widows (1 Timothy 5:3). 74. Honor rulers (1 Peter 2:17). 75. Lay aside all envy (1 Peter 2:1). 76. Lay aside all evil speaking (1 Peter 2:1). 77. Do not lay up treasures on earth (Matthew 6:19). 78. Let your light shine (Matthew 5:16). 79. Let everyone deny himself (Matthew 16:24). 8o. Let him share with the needy (Luke 3:11). 81. Let everyone obey civil laws (Romans 13:1). 82. Let no man deceive himself (1 Corinthians 3:18).

83. Let everyone examine himself at communion (1 Corinthians 11:28). 84. Let your requests be made known to God (Philippians 4:6).

85. Let your speech be with grace (Colossians 4:6).

86. Do all things in decent order (1 Corinthians 14:40).

87. Let those who are taught support the teacher (Galatians 6:6).

88. Let wives be subject to their husbands (Ephesians 5:22; Colossians 3:18).

89. Let husbands love their wives (Ephesians 5:25).

9o. Let wives reverence their husbands (Ephesians 5:33).

91 Let everyone be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath (James 1:19).

92. Let the afflicted pray (James 5:13).

93. Let the adorning of women he more inward than outward (1 Peter 3:3, 4).

94. Don’t’ let the left hand know what the right hand is doing (Matthew 6:3).

95. Do not let sin reign in the body (Romans 6:12).

96. Do not let the sun do down on your wrath (Ephesians 4:26).

97. Follow things that edify (Romans 14:19).

98. Walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25).

99. Do not provoke one another (Galatians 5:26).

100. Do not be weary in well-doing (Galatians 6:9).

101. Come boldly to the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16; 10:19-23).

102. Do not forsake assembling together in worship (Hebrews 10:25). 103. Exhort one another (Hebrews 10:25).

104. Lay aside every weight (Hebrews 12:1).

105. Run with patience the race before us (Hebrews 12:1).

106. Look to Jesus (Hebrews 12:2).

107. Offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually (Hebrews 13:15). 108. Do not judge one another in doubtful things (Romans 14:1).

109. Do not cause others to stumble (Romans 14:13).

110. Mark troublemakers (Romans 16:17; Philippians 3:17).

111. Pray for your persecutors (Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:28).

112. Pray for laborers (Matthew 9:38; Luke 10:2).

113. Present your body to God (Romans 12:1).

114. Put on the new man (Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10).

115. Put on the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:11, 13).

116. Do not quench the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19).

117. Consider yourself dead to sin (Romans 6:11).

118. Redeem the time (Ephesians 5:16).

119. Resist the devil (James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:9).

120. Restore backsliders in meekness (Galatians 6:1).

121. Strengthen feeble knees (Hebrews 12:12).

122. Study to show yourself approved to God (2 Timothy 2:15).

123. Take no anxious thought of tomorrow (Matthew 6:34).

124. Take the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11:24-26).

125. Be careful not to despise little ones (Matthew 18:1o).

126. Be aware of yourself and your doctrine (1 Timothy 4:16).

127. Withdraw from disorderly people (2 Thessalonians 3:6,14).