Key moral principles

Leviticus "the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself"

• when jesus commanded to 'love thy neighbour as yourself' he was echoing the OT book of Leviticus 
• the israelites are welcome foreigners as fellow citizens 

Luke "love the lord with all your heart and with all your soul" "do this and you will live"

• the law commands people to love god and their neighbour as themselves 
• everyone is part of gods creation 
• your neighbour is everyone who we meet on life's journey 

Exodus "the lord, the lord, the compassionate and gracious god"

• god is gracious and merciful 
• forgiving and steadfast in love

John "we love because he first loved us"

• if you don't love your brothers and sisters you don't love god 
• it is impossible to love god without loving other people 

Samuel "fear the lord and serve him faithfully"

• the Israelites are commanded to fear the lord and serve him faithfully 
• freed Israelites from Egypt and lead them through wilderness 

Ephesians "each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour"

• paul advises christians to speak the truth 
• be angry but don't do sin

Timothy "the goal of this command is love"

• conscious is informed both by the bible and work of the Holy Spirit 
• they are to confess their sins and experience gods forgiveness 
• when we violate standards we are expected to show guilt 

Corinthians "our conscious testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world"

• you must satisfy their conscious 
• the goal is to develop a mature conscious based on biblical teaching 
• it can become overly sensitive false guilt 

Matthew "for if you forgive other people who sin against you, your heavenly father will also forgive you"

• if you dont forgive you will not be forgiven 
• you must spend a lifetime forgiving 

Colossians "bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone"

• forgiveness is the forgiveness freely granted to sinners by god
• forgivneeds is a conscious choice that christians must make through a decision motivated by obedience