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Sorry to overwhelm this thread with info. But please compare the Torah with some of the commandments/instructions found in the New Testament shown below:
[h=2]Seven "Abstains" - Abstain from :[/h]
[h=2]Seven "Abstains" - Abstain from :[/h]
- Idols (ACTS 15:20)
- Fornication (ACTS 15:20,29; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:2-3)
- Strangled meats (ACTS 15:20)
- Eating blood (ACTS 15:20)
- Meats offered to idols (ACTS 15:29)
- All appearance of evil (1 THESSALONIANS 5:22)
- Fleshly lusts (1 PETER 2:11)
- Troublemakers (ROMANS 16:17)
- Profane and vain babblings (1 TIMOTHY 6:20)
- False science (1 TIMOTHY 6:20)
- Unlearned questions (2 TIMOTHY 2:23)
- Foolish questions (TITUS 3:9)
- Genealogies (TITUS 3:9)
- Arguments about the law (TITUS 3:9)
- Ask and ye shall receive (MATTHEW 7:7)
- Ask no return of goods (LUKE 6:30)
- Ask life for backsliders (1 JOHN 5:16)
- Awake to righteousness (1 CORINTHIANS 15:34)
- Awake to life (EPHESIANS 5:14)
- Be exceeding glad (MATTHEW 5:12)
- Be reconciled to a brother (MATTHEW 5:24)
- Be perfect (MATTHEW 5:48; 2 CORINTHIANS 13:11)
- Be wise as serpents (MATTHEW 10:16)
- Be harmless as doves (MATTHEW 10:16)
- Be ready for Christ's coming (MATTHEW 24:44; LUKE 12:40)
- Be content with your wages (LUKE 3:14)
- Be merciful as God (LUKE 6:36)
- Be like faithful servants (LUKE 12:36)
- Be thankful (COLOSSIANS 3:15)
- Be at peace among selves (1 THESSALONIANS 5:13)
- Be patient toward all people (1 THESSALONIANS 5:14; 2 TIMOTHY 2:24)
- Be no partaker of sin (1 TIMOTHY 5:22)
- Be sober and hope (1 PETER 1:13)
- Be sober and pray (1 PETER 4:7)
- Be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, charity, and patience (aged men, TITUS 2:2)
- Be sober, love husbands and children (young women, TITUS 2:4)
- Be sober minded (young men, TITUS 2:6)
- Be in behaviour as becoming to saints (aged women, TITUS 2:3)
- Be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient (young women, TITUS 2:5)
- Be ready to give an answer of the hope that is in you (1 PETER 3:15)
- Be of good cheer (JOHN 16:33)
- Be baptized (ACTS 2:38)
- Be converted (ACTS 3:19)
- Be transformed (ROMANS 12:2)
- Be kind of brotherly love one to another (ROMANS 12:10; EPHESIANS 4:32)
- Be fervent in spirit (ROMANS 12:11)
- Be patient in tribulation (ROMANS 12:12)
- Be given to hospitality (ROMANS 12:13)
- Be afraid, if lawless (ROMANS 13:4)
- Be no idolater (1 CORINTHIANS 10:7)
- Be followers of Paul as he followed Christ (1 CORINTHIANS 11:1; PHILIPPIANS 3:17)
- Be followers of God (EPHESIANS 5:1)
- Be followers of the faithful and patient (HEBREWS 6:12)
- Be children in malice (1 CORINTHIANS 14:20)
- Be men in understanding (1 CORINTHIANS 14:20)
- Be steadfast (1 CORINTHIANS 15:58)
- Be unmoveable (1 CORINTHIANS 15:58)
- Be always abounding in God's work (1 CORINTHIANS 15:58)
- Be strong in the Lord (1 CORINTHIANS 16:13; EPHESIANS 6:10; 2 TIMOTHY 2:1)
- Be of good comfort (2 CORINTHIANS 13:11)
- Be of one mind (ROMANS 12:16; 2 CORINTHIANS 13:11; PHILIPPIANS 2:2; 1 PETER 3:8)
- Be separate from the unclean (2 CORINTHIANS 6:17)
- Be renewed in spirit (EPHESIANS 4:23)
- Be angry and sin not (EPHESIANS 4:26)
- Be tender-hearted one to another (EPHESIANS 4:32)
- Be filled with the Spirit (EPHESIANS 5:18)
- Be likeminded (PHILIPPIANS 2:2)
- Be one of accord (PHILIPPIANS 2:2)
- Be anxious for nothing (PHILIPPIANS 4:6)
- Be an example to believers in word, conversation, charity, spirit, faith, and purity (1 TIMOTHY 4:12)
- Be a partaker of Christian sufferings (2 TIMOTHY 1:8; cp. 1 PETER 4:1)
- 53. Be gentle to all people (2 TIMOTHY 2:24)
- 54. Be apt to teach (2 TIMOTHY 2:24)
- 55. Be instant in season, out of season (2 TIMOTHY 4:2)
- Be careful to maintain good works (TITUS 3:8,14; cp. MATTHEW 5:16)
- Be content with what you have (HEBREWS 13:5)
- Be doers of the Word (JAMES 1:22)
- Be afflicted and mourn (JAMES 4:9)
- Be patient till Christ comes (JAMES 5:7-8)
- Be holy in conversation (behaviour) (1 PETER 1:15-16)
- Be pitiful (1 PETER 3:8)
- Be courteous (1 PETER 3:8)
- Be examples of the flock of God, not lord over it (1 PETER 5:3)
- Be subject one to another (1 PETER 5:5)
- Be clothed with humility (1 PETER 5:5)
- Be sober (1 PETER 5:8)
- Be vigilant (1 PETER 5:8)
- Be mindful of prophecies and command*ments (2 PETER 3:2)
- Be diligent to be found in peace (2 PETER 3:14)
- Be diligent to be without spot, and blameless (2 PETER 3:14)
- Be faithful to death (REVELATION 2:10)
- Be watchful, strengthen self (REVELATION 3:2)
- Be zealous and repent (REVELATION 3:19)
- Be not like the hypocrites in prayer (MATTHEW 6:5)
- Be not like the heathen in prayer (MATTHEW 6:8)
- Be not as hypocrites in fasting (MATTHEW 6:16)
- Be not called "Rabbi" (MATTHEW 23:8)
- Be not called "Master" (MATTHEW 23:9)
- Be not afraid of man (LUKE 12:4)
- Be not of doubtful mind (LUKE 12:29)
- Be not many teachers (JAMES 3:1)
- Be not afraid of terror (1 PETER 3:14)
- Be not troubled (1 PETER 3:14)
- Be not ignorant of time with God (2 PETER 3:8; cp. ISAIAH 57:15)
- Be not deceived: 10 classes not to inherit the kingdom (1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10)
- Be not conformed to world (ROMANS 12:2)
- Be not slothful in business (ROMANS 12:11)
- Be not conceited (ROMANS 12:16)
- Be not overcome of evil (ROMANS 12:21)
- Be not mere servants of men (1 CORINTHIANS 7:23)
- Be not children in understanding (1 CORINTHIANS 14:20)
- Be not deceived by evil companions (1 CORINTHIANS 15:33)
- Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers (2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-15)
- Be not entangled again with keeping the law (GALATIANS 5:1. See ‘Eighty-five Old and New Covenant Contrasts')
- Be not deceived: man will reap what he sows (GALATIANS 6:7-8)
- Be not partakers with sinners (EPHESIANS 5:7)
- Be not unwise about God's will (EPHESIANS 5:17)
- Be not drunk with wine (EPHESIANS 5:18)
- Be not weary in well doing (2 THESSALONIANS 3:13)
- Be not ashamed of God (2 TIMOTHY 1:8)
- Be not slothful (HEBREWS 6:12)
- Be not forgetful of strangers (HEBREWS 13:2)
- Be not carried about with different strange doctrines (HEBREWS 13:9)
- Beware of false prophets (MATTHEW 7:15)
- Beware of people (MATTHEW 10:17)
- Beware of leaven (doctrine) of Pharisees (MATTHEW 16:6-12)
- Beware of leaven (doctrine) of Herod (MARK 8:15)
- Beware of hypocrisy (LUKE 12:1)
- Beware of covetousness (LUKE 12:15)
- Beware of scribes (MARK 12:38; LUKE 20:46)
- Beware of lest you despise God and perish (ACTS 13:40-41)
- Beware of dogs (false teachers, PHILIPPIANS 3:2; ISAIAH 56:10)
- Beware of evil workers (PHILIPPIANS 3:2)
- Beware of the concision (Jews, PHILIPPIANS 3:2)
- Beware of being spoiled through philosophy (COLOSSIANS 2:8)
- Beware of being spoiled through vain deceit (COLOSSIANS 2:8)
- Beware of backsliding (2 PETER 3:17)
- The gospel (MARK 1:15)
- God's existence (HEBREWS 11:6)
- On Jesus Christ (1 JOHN 3:23)
- God rewards diligent seeking (HEBREWS 11:6)
- Believe not every spirit (1 JOHN 4:1)
- Those who curse you (MATTHEW 5:44; LUKE 6:28)
- Persecutors (ROMANS 12:14)
- The beam out of own eyes (MATTHEW 7:5; LUKE 6:42)
- Devils (MATTHEW 10:8)
- All your cares upon God (1 PETER 5:7)
- One another-fellow Christians (1 THESSALONIANS 4:18; 1 THESSALONIANS 5:11)
- The feeble-minded (1 THESSALONIANS 5:14)
- Fathers (MATTHEW 19:19; MARK 10:19; LUKE 18:20; EPHESIANS 6:2)
- Mothers (MATTHEW 19:19; MARK 10:19; LUKE 18:20; EPHESIANS 6:2)
- Others (ROMANS 12:10)
- Widows indeed (1 TIMOTHY 5:3)
- All people (1 PETER 2:17)
- Kings - rulers (1 PETER 2:17)
- Men to be blameless (1 TIMOTHY 5:7)
- The rich to be humble (1 TIMOTHY 6:17)
- The rich to trust in God (1 TIMOTHY 6:17)
- The rich to do good works (1 TIMOTHY 6:18)
- The rich to lay hold on eternal life (1 TIMOTHY 6:19)
- The ravens (LUKE 12:24)
- The lilies (LUKE 12:27-28)
- Truth (2 TIMOTHY 2:7)
- That you are capable of falling (GALATIANS 6:1)
- Christ (HEBREWS 3:1; HEBREWS 12:3)
- Love (JOHN 15:9)
- Prayer (ROMANS 12:12; COLOSSIANS 4:2)
- Truth (2 TIMOTHY 3:14)
- The best gifts (1 CORINTHIANS 12:31)
- To prophesy (1 CORINTHIANS 14:39); cp. things not to covet (EXODUS 20:17; DEUTERONOMY 5:21)
- Your confidence in God (HEBREWS 10:35)
- Hardness (2 TIMOTHY 2:3)
- Sufferings (2 TIMOTHY 4:5)
- God (MATTHEW 10:28; LUKE 12:5; 1 PETER 2:17; REVELATION 14:7)
- Man (MATTHEW 10:28; LUKE 12:5)
- Persecutors (MATTHEW 10:26)
- No lack of provision (MATTHEW 10:31; MARK 6:8-9; LUKE 12:7)