Table of Contents
- 1 What can you do to be the means of doing much good in your generation?
- 2 What are the commandments in the New Testament?
- 3 Which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God?
- 4 What blessings did the Lord promise Hyrum?
- 5 Which is the first commandment in the Bible?
- 6 What did God tell Moses to do in the Ten Commandments?
What can you do to be the means of doing much good in your generation?
8 Verily, verily, I say unto you, even as you desire of me so it shall be done unto you; and, if you desire, you shall be the means of doing much good in this generation.
What are the commandments in the New Testament?
Thou knowest the commandments: Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother. We expect Jesus to recite the entire Decalogue.
How many commandments were there originally?
613 commandments
But there are more: From Genesis through Deuteronomy, there are a total of 613 commandments, as counted by medieval sages. Many of the 613 are obsolete.
How many commandments did Moses receive?
Ten Commandments
These laws were the Ten Commandments which were given to Moses on two stone tablets, and they set out the basic principles that would govern the Israelites lives.
Which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God?
Wisdom. Wisdom is considered the first and the greatest of the gifts.
What blessings did the Lord promise Hyrum?
In the face of persecution, Hyrum exhibited faith in the Lord’s promises, including a guarantee to escape his enemies if he so chose. In a blessing Hyrum received in 1835 under the hands of Joseph Smith, the Lord promised him: “Thou shalt have power to escape the hand of thine enemies.
What are the 2 greatest commandments?
In Matthew 22:37-39, we read, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
What does the Bible say about the Ten Commandments?
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
Which is the first commandment in the Bible?
Jesus summarized these 613 Laws into two great Commandments: Matthew 22:37-40 (KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39]
What did God tell Moses to do in the Ten Commandments?
God then gave Moses the following Ten Commandments: 1. “I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Take care, therefore, not to make a covenant with these inhabitants of the land that you are to enter; else they will become a snare among you.
How are the ten commandments related to Jewish law?
The Ten Commandments form the basis of Jewish law, stating God’s universal and timeless standard of right and wrong – unlike the rest of the 613 commandments in the Torah, which include, for example, various duties and ceremonies such as the kashrut dietary laws, and now unobservable rituals to be performed by priests in the Holy Temple.