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Genesis 1:31
God created in the universe in six days ‘He saw that it was good’
Genesis 2:7
God formed Adam from ‘dust’
Genesis 2:18
God created Eve from Adam’s rib as a ‘suitable companion’
Genesis 3
The fall and man’s expulsion from Eden
Genesis 1:28
“Be fruitful and multiply the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens”
Genesis 1:27
Imago Dei
Matthew 22:37
Jesus’ greatest commandment is to ‘Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’
Matthew 22:39
Second is like the first greatest commandment, to ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’
John 3:16
Purpose of humans is salvation in Christ ‘For God so loved the world’
Matthew 28:19-20
‘Therefore go and make disciples of all nations’
John 1:14
The incarnation, Jesus becomes flesh as a human
John 3:16
Salvation is an offer only for humans
Genesis 3
The Fall - humans are fallen and inclined towards sin
→ Links to mistaking evil for ‘apparent good’
1 Corinthians 6:19
St Paul speaking
‘Your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you’
Matthew 16:26
‘What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?’
Mark 8:36
‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole word, yet forfeit soul'?’
Matthew 4:4 (Quoting Deuteronomy 8:3)
(Against the temptations of the devil) ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God’
→ the word of God sustains your soul, it is our life-giving source
John 6:63
‘It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life’
→ Cross-reference Matthew 4:4 and Deuteronomy 8:3
Luke 10:25-37
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Matthew 25:31-46 (And the 4 Christian duties)
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats:
Feed the hungry
Clothe the poor
Help the sick
Visit prisoners
1 Timothy 6:10
‘The love of money is the root of all evil’
Matthew 6:24
‘No one can serve two masters’ (Money and God)
Luke 23:34
'Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing. '
Matthew 5:48
‘Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect’
→ Sermon on the mount
→ Summarizing Jesus’ teachings about the law by telling us to be whole, rounded and complete as God is
Luke 9:23
‘Whoever wants to be my disciples must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me’
Job 1:12
‘The Lord gives and the Lord takes away’
Psalm 139:13
‘For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.’
Jeremiah 1:5
‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’
Genesis 2:18-24
‘a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife and the two become one flesh.’
Ephesians 5:24
‘Wives should obey their husbands in everything, just as the church people obey Christ.’
Exodus 20:14
‘Thou shall not commit adultery’
1 Corinthians 6
‘Flee sexual immorality’
1 Corinthians 7
‘for it is better to marry then to burn with passion’
Matthew 5:28
‘But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.’
Matthew 19:6
‘So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate).’
Exodus 20:12
‘Honour your father and mother’
Colossians 3:20-21
‘Children, it is your Christian duty to obey your parents always for that is whaat pleases God. Parents do not irritate your children, or they will become discouraged.’
1 Corinthians 7:1
‘It is good for a man not to touch a woman’
1 Samuel 15:3
‘Go now and fall on the Amalekites and destroy them, and put their property under ban. Spare no one…’
Matthew 5:9
‘Blessed are the peacemakers’
Matthew 26:52
‘Those who live by the sword die by the sword’
John 15:4
‘Greater love has no man that this that he lay down his life for his friends’
Romans 13:1f
‘Let every person be subject to the ruling authorities… he who resists the authorities resists God’
Isaiah 2:4
‘God will settle the disputes of the nations, among the great powers near and far, they will hammer their swords into ploughs, and their spears into knives
Amos 5:24
‘But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!’
Romans 12:19
God says: ‘It is mine to avenge, I will repay’
Matthew 18:22
‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times’
Hebrews 12:14
‘Strive for peace with everyone’
Genesis 9:6
‘Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed’
Leviticus 24:20
‘An eye for an eye’
John 8:1-11
Jesus stops the stoning of a woman caught in adultery
‘If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her’
Matthew 5:39
‘Do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you’
‘If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also’
Updating OT
Deuteronomy 7
‘Destroy the foreigner in the land’
Matthew 28:18
‘Go make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the father, son and holy spirit.’
John 14:6
‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’
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