RULES OF ACTION OR CONDUCT
WHAT DOES GOD THINK OF OUR PRECEPT?
3:10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; 3:11 There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God; 3:12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one: 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips: 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY WE MUST DO ?
3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God! 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.
GOD IS HOLY
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS HOLY
THE SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN US IS HOLY
INCORRUPTIBLE
5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 5:2 Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 5:4 For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, `even' our faith. 5:5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, `even' Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. 5:7 And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. 5:8 For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.
SEEK GOD'S PRECEPT
1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and `the' Saviour Jesus Christ: 1:2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 1:3 seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue; 1:4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust. 1:5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in `your' virtue knowledge; 1:6 and in `your' knowledge self-control; and in `your' self-control patience; and in `your' patience godliness; 1:7 and in `your' godliness brotherly kindness; and in `your' brotherly kindness love. 1:8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. 1:10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: 1:11 for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
ARE ANY OF US WHERE WE SHOULD BE?
4:9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 4:11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
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