L - Precepts Flashcards
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
LATTER TIMES SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH
1Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
LOOKETH FROM HEAVEN, BEHOLD SONS OF MEN
Psalms 33:13 The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
LIGHT
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
LOVE NOT THE WORLD
1John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
LET NO CORRUPT COMMUNICATION COME FROM YOUR MOUTH
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
LET ALL BITTERNESS AND WRATH AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT AWAY WITH ALL MALICE
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
LET YOUR COMMUNICATION BE YEA YEA NAY NAY YES YES NO NO
Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF, CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE
Leviticus 19:17-18 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
LETTER WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL, BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK
2Corinthians 10:9-11 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
LABOUR NOT FOR MYSELF ONLY
Sirach 33:17 Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.
LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS CLEAN KEEPING THE LAW IS WITH GREAT REWARD.
Psalms 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
LET NOT THE WIFE DEPART FROM HER HUSBAND
1Corinthians 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
LET GOD BE TRUE BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR WHAT IF SOME DID NOT BELIEVE
Romans 3:3-4 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
LEISURE TIME LITTLE BUSINESS SHALL BECOME WISE
Sirach 38:24 The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.
25 How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
