11/19/2024
Here are some key "do's" and "don'ts" from Jesus, along with their references from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible:
# # # Do's:
1. **Love Your Neighbor**:
- **Reference**: Matthew 22:39 - "And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
2. **Forgive Others**:
- **Reference**: Matthew 6:14-15 - "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
3. **Serve Others**:
- **Reference**: Mark 10:45 - "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."
4. **Pray**:
- **Reference**: Matthew 6:6 - "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
# # # Don'ts:
1. **Do Not Judge**:
- **Reference**: Matthew 7:1 - "Judge not, that ye be not judged."
2. **Do Not Worry**:
- **Reference**: Matthew 6:25 - "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"
3. **Do Not Be Hypocritical**:
- **Reference**: Matthew 23:27 - "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
4. **Do Not Follow the Crowd**:
- **Reference**: Matthew 7:13 - "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat."