“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven” – Matthew 7:21
We believe reading and following Jesus Commandments as recorded in the New Testament is one of the very best and easiest ways for someone to turn their lives around here on earth and more importantly how to get to heaven.
The list of Jesus Commandments is simple, straightforward, and contains bible verses only – no commentary or opinions. Churches, individuals, or ministries that wish to have a print-ready exact copy of what we hand out can download [HERE]
This list of Jesus Commandments was originally compiled and published by Evangelist. J. S. McConnell in 1925 and republished by his son John McConnell in 1999:
THE COMMANDMENTS OF JESUS
“IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS” – John 14:15
“IF A MAN LOVE ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS: AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME UNTO HIM AND MAKE OUR ABODE WITH HIM” – John 14:23
I. REPENTANCE
1. “Repent” – Matthew 4:17; Revelation 2:5
2. “Come unto Me” – Matthew 11:28
3. “Seek first God and His righteousness” – Matthew 6:33
4. “Forgive if ye have ought against any” – Mark 11:25
5. “Deny Yourself” – Matthew 16:24
6. “Ask…seek…knock” – Matthew 7:7
7. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate” – Luke 13:24
II. BELIEF
1. “Believe the Gospel” – Mark 1:15
2. “Ye believe in God, believe also in Me” – John 14:1
3. “Believe on Him who He (God) hath sent” – John 6:28-29
4. “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me” – John 14:11
5. “Believe the works…I do” – John 10:37-38
6. “While ye have light believe in the light” – John 12:36
7. “Believe that ye receive” – Mark 11:24
III. THE NEW BIRTH
1. “Ye must be born again” – John 3:7
2. “Cleanse first that which is within” – Matthew 23:26
3. “Make the tree good, and his fruit good” – Matthew 12:33
4. “Abide in Me and I in you” – John 15:4
5. “Have salt in yourselves” – Mark 9:50
6. “Labor…for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life” – John 6:27
7. “Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven” – Luke 10:20
IV. RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT
1. “Receive ye the Holy Ghost” – John 20:23
2. “Let the children first be filled” – Mark 7:27
3. “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink” – John 7:37-39
4. “Keep my commandments and…the Father…shall give you another Comforter” – John 14:15-17
5. “Ask…with importunity” – John 16:24; Luke 11:5-13
6. “Tarry…until ye be endued with power from on high” – Luke 24:49
7. “When the Comforter is come…He shall testify of Me: and ye also shall bear witness” – John 15:26-27
V. FOLLOWING JESUS
1. “Follow Me” – John 12:26
2. “Be baptized” – Matthew 3:13-15; Matthew 28:19
3. “Take this…(communion) in remembrance of Me” – Luke 22:17-19
4. “Ye also ought to wash one another’s feet” – John 13:14-15
5. “If any man will come after Me…let him take up his cross daily” – Luke 9:23
6. “Learn of Me” – Matthew 11:29
7. “Continue ye in My love” – John 15:9
VI. PRAYER
1. “Pray always” – Luke 21:36
2. “Pray that ye enter not into temptation” – Luke 22:40, 46
3. “Pray…the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers” – Luke 10:2
4. “Pray for them which despitefully use you” – Luke 6:28
5. “Pray to the Father…in my name” – Matthew 6:6; John 16:24-26
6. “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven…” – Matthew 6:9-13
7. “When ye pray, use not vain repetitions” – Matthew 6:7-8
VII. FAITH
1. “Have faith in God” – Mark 11:22
2. “Be not faithless” – John 20:27
3. “Neither be ye of doubtful mind” – Luke 12:29
4. “Take no thought for your life” – Matthew 6:25-34
5. “Let not your heart be troubled” – John 14:1,27
6. “Be of good cheer” – Matthew 14:27
7. “Be not afraid” – Mark 5:36: Luke 12:4-7
VIII. SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES
1. “Search the scriptures” – John 5:39
2. “Remember the word that I said” – John 15:20
3. “Let these sayings sink down into your ears” – Luke 9:44
4. “Take heed therefore how ye hear” – Luke 8:18
5. “Take heed what ye hear” – Mark 4:24
6. “Beware of the leaven (doctrine) of the Pharisees” – Matthew 16:6, 12
7. “Beware of false prophets” – Matthew 7:15-17
IX. LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE
1. “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works” – Matthew 5:16
2. “Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness” – Luke 11:35
3. “Go and bring forth fruit, and …bear much fruit” – John 15:8-16
4. “Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father” – Luke 6:36
5. “Tell…how great things the Lord hath done for thee” – Mark 5:19
6. “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields” – John 4:35
7. “Walk while you have the light” – John 12:35
X. THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
1. “Hold fast till I come” – Revelation 2:25; Revelation 3:2-3
2. “Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh” – Luke 12:40
3. “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord” – Luke 12:35-36
4. “Take heed…lest…your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life” – Luke 21:34
5. “Remember Lot’s wife” – Luke 17:31-32
6. “Take heed that ye be not deceived” – Luke 21:8; Mark 13:5-6
7. “Watch” – Mark 13:34-37
XI. SUPREME LOVE TO GOD
1. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart…soul…mind…strength” – Mark 12:30
2. “God, and Him only shalt thou serve” – Matthew 4:10
3. “Worship the Father in spirit and in truth” – John 4:23-24
4. “Call no man your father upon the Earth” – Matthew 23:9
5. “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God” – Matthew 4:7
6. “Fear Him (God) which…hath power to cast into hell” – Luke 12:5
7. “All men should honor the Son” – John 5:22-23
XII. OUR DUTY TO GOD AND MAN
1. “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” – Mark 12:17
2. “Swear not at all” – Matthew 5:34-37; Mark 4:22
3. “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” – Matthew 19:5-6
4. “Agree with thine adversary quickly” – Matthew 5:25
5. “We saw one casting out devils in thy name…Forbid him not” – Mark 9:38-40
6. “Eat such things as are set before you” – Luke 10:8
7. “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost” – John 6:12
XIII. OUR DUTY TO OUR NEIGHBOR
1. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” – Matthew 19:17-19
2. “Thou shalt do no murder” – Matthew 19:18
3. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” – Matthew 19:18
4. “Thou shalt not steal” – Matthew 19:18
5. “Thou shalt not bear false witness” – Matthew 19:18
6. “Honor thy father and thy mother” – Matthew 19:19
7. “As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise” – Luke 6:31
XIV. COVETOUSNESS
1. “Take heed and beware of covetousness” – Luke 12:15
2. “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth…but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven” – Matthew 6:19-20
3. “Ye pay tithe…and not leave (them) undone” – Matthew 23:23
4. “Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away” – Matthew 5:42
5. “Give alms of such things as ye have” – Luke 11:41
6. “When thou makest a dinner..call not thy friends, nor thy brethren…but….call the poor” – Luke 14:12-13
7. “Make yourselves friends of the mammon…” – Luke 16:9
XV. HYPOCRISY
1. “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy” – Luke 12:1
2. “Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes” – Luke 20:46-47
3. “Do not ye after their works” – Matthew 23:2-3
4. “Make not My Father’s house an house of merchandise” – John 2:16
5. “Do not your alms before men, to be seen of them” – Matthew 6:1-4
6. “When thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites…to be seen of men…enter into thy closet and pray in secret” – Matthew 6:5-6
7. “When thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast” – Matthew 6:16-18
XVI. MEEKNESS
1. “Take my yoke upon you…for I am meek and lowly in heart” – Matthew 11:29
2. “The princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them…but it shall not be so among you” – Matthew 20:25-26
3. “Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all” – Mark 10:43-44
4. “Be not ye called Rabbi” – Matthew 23:8
5. “Sit not down in the highest room” – Luke 14:8-11
6. “Rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you” – Luke 10:20
7. “Say, we are unprofitable servants” – Luke 17:10
XVII. OUR LOVE TO THE BRETHREN
1. “Love one another as I have loved you” – John 15:12
2. “Despise not one of these little ones” – Matthew 18:10-14
3. “Have peace one with another … and be reconciled to thy brother” – Mark 9:50; Matthew 5:23-24
4. “If thy brother…trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone” – Matthew 18:15-17
5. “If thy brother trespass against thee seven times a day…thou shalt forgive him” – Luke 17:3-4; Matthew 18:21-22
6. “Judge not according to appearance… first cast the beam out of thine own eye” – John 7:24; Matthew 7:1-5
7. “Condemn not” – Luke 6:37
XVIII. PERFECT LOVE
1. “Be ye therefore perfect” – Matthew 5:48
2. “Sell that ye have and give alms” – Matthew 19:21; Luke 12:32-33
3. “Love your enemies” – Matthew 5:44; Matthew 26:52
4. “Do good to them which hate you” – Luke 6:27-28
5. “Lend, hoping for nothing again” – Luke 6:35
6. “Resist not evil” – Matthew 5:39-41
7. “In your patience possess ye your souls” – Luke 21:19
XIX. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
1. “Be thou faithful unto death” – Revelation 2:10
2. “Hold that fast which thou hast” – Revelation 3:11
3. “When men shall revile you, and persecute you,…rejoice, and be exceeding glad” – Matthew 5:11-12; Luke 6:23
4. “When they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another” – Matthew 10:23
5. “When they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak” – Matthew 10:19
6. “Murmur not among yourselves” – John 6:41-43
7. “Look up and lift up your hands” – Luke 21:28
XX. PREACHING THE GOSPEL
1. “Preach the gospel to every creature” – Mark. 16:15; Matthew 10:7
2. “Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His (Christ’s) name” – Luke 24:46-47
3. “Baptize disciples, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost” – Matthew 28:19
4. “Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded” – Matthew 28:20
5. “What I tell you … that speak” – Matthew 10:27; Mark 4:22
6. “Feed my sheep” – John 21:15-17
7. “Heal the sick” – Matthew 10:8
XXI. WISDOM
1. “Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves” – Matthew 10:16
2. “Beware of men” – Matthew 10:17
3. “Let (the blind leaders) alone” – Matthew 15:12-14
4. “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine” – Matthew 7:6
5. “Consider the lilies… how they grow” – Matthew 6:28
6. “Whatsoever city … ye shall enter, inquire who is worthy; and there abide … Go not from house to house” – Matthew. 10:11-13; Luke 10:5-7
7. “Whosoever will not receive you … shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them” – Luke 9:5; Luke 10:10-11
“IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS” – John 14:15
“IF A MAN LOVE ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS: AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME UNTO HIM AND MAKE OUR ABODE WITH HIM” – John 14:23