Obedience in the Brit Chadashah (New Covenant)
Obedience in the New Covenant
Relevant Passages (examples, not complete references)
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John 14.1
"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
John 14.15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
John 15.10
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
John 14.21
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
Matt 19.17
He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
1 John 5.3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
2 John 1.6
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Matt 22.37
Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
👉 Yeshua referring to the Jewish Shema prayer in Deuteronomy:
Deut 6.4
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
Deut 6.5
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Matt 22.40
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."