The Basics

1. MALICE

EPHESIANS 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

COLOSSIANS 3:8-9 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Vs.9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

1 PETER 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

2. MAN

GENESIS 1:26-27 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Vs.27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

GENESIS 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

PSLAMS 144:3-4 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

Vs.4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

MATTHEW 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

JOHN 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

3. MARRIAGE

MATTHEW 19:4-6 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Vs.5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Vs.6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

LUKE 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:9-11 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Vs.10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Vs.11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord

4. MARTYROM

MATTHEW 10:21-22 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Vs.22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

REVELATION 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

5. MEDICINE

PROVERBS 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

EZEKIEL 47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

REVELATION 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

6. MEDITATION

JOSHUA 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

PSLAMS 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

1 TIMOTHY 4:13-15 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Vs.14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Vs.15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

7. MEEKNESS

PSALMS 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

MATTHEW 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

COLOSSIANS 3:12-13 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Vs.13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

2 TIMOTHY 2:24-25 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

Vs.25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

TITUS 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

1 PETER 3:1-4 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Vs.2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

Vs.3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

Vs.4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

8. MINISTER

EPHESIANS 4:11-12 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Vs.12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

1 THESSALONIANS 5:12-13 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Vs.13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

1 TIMOTHY 4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

1 PETER 5:3-4 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Vs.3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Vs.4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

1 TIMOTHY 5:17-18 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Vs.18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

9. MONEY

1 TIMOTHY 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

MATTHEW 22:19-21 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.

Vs.20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?

Vs.21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

1 TIMOTHY 6:17-18 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Vs.18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

10. MOTHER

EXODUS 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

PROVERBS 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

PROVERBS 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

PROVERBS 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

EPHESIANS 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

11. MYSTERIES

LUKE 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

1 CORINTHIANS 2:7-10 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Vs.8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Vs.9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Vs.10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

EPHESIANS 3:3-6 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,

Vs.4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

Vs.5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Vs.6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: