Commandments: Other Apostles: Precepts of, Explicitly Stated or Implied in Didactic Epistles

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism. …

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. …

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. …

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” …

Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains. …

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. …

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. …

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble. …

But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect, …

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. …

As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you: …

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” …

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; …

Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,

Therefore, beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother. …

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, …

I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.