God’s Rules for Christian Living

By James D. Quiggle

How to live a life pleasing to God is the concern of every believer in the risen Jesus Christ as Savior. God does not leave us in doubt. There are 1,050 “Do This, don’t Do That” commandments for the Christian in the New Testament. This publication arranges those commandments in several easy-to-understand categories. Every commandment in the list has scripture references.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James D. Quiggle
• Release date: May 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005847142

James D. Quiggle

James D. Quiggle was born in 1952 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He grew up in Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. In the early 1970s he joined the United States Air Force. At his first permanent assignment in Indian Springs, Nevada in a small Baptist church, the pastor introduced him to Jesus and soon after he was saved. Over the next ten years those he met in churches from the East Coast to the West Coast, mature Christian men, poured themselves into mentoring him. In the 1970s he was gifted with the Scofield Bible Course from Moody Bible Institute. As he completed his studies his spiritual gift of teaching became even more apparent. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Bethany Bible College during the 1980s while still in the Air Force. Between 2006–2008, after his career in the Air Force and with his children grown up, he decided to continue his education. He enrolled in Bethany Divinity College and Seminary and earned a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theological Studies.As an extension of his spiritual gift of teaching, he was prompted by the Holy Spirit to begin writing books. James Quiggle is now a Christian author with over fifty commentaries on Bible books and doctrines. He is an editor for the Evangelical Dispensational Quarterly Journal published by Scofield Biblical Institute and Theological Seminary.He continues to write and has a vibrant teaching ministry through social media.

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God’s Rules for Christian Living

Seven Abstain From

Seven Things to Avoid

Ask

Things to Awake to

Be

Be Not

Beware

Believe

Not to Believe

Bless

Cast Out

Comfort

Honor

Charge

Consider

Continue

Covet

Not Covet

Cast Away

Endure

Fear

Not Fear

Feed

Flee

Do

Do Not

Follow

Giving

Lay Aside

Keep

Go

Have

Hold

Let

Let Not

Let's

Let's Not

Live

Love

Not Love

Ways to Love

Pray To

Pray For

Ways To Pray

Prove

Rejoice

Put Away

Put Off

Put On

Not Rebuke

To Rebuke

Ways to Rebuke

Rejoice In

Remember

Seek

Stand Fast

Stand Fast With

Stand In

Think On

Ways to Think

Submit

Take

Take Heed

Not Walk

Thou Shalt

Walk in

Thou Shalt Not

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Copyright Notice

The following is a list of 1,050 New Testament Do This, Don’t Do That commandments for living the Christian life.

Seven Abstain from

1. Idols (Acts 15:20)

2. Fornication (Acts 15:20, 29; 1 Thessalonians 4:2–3)

3. Strangled meats (Acts 15:20)

4. Eating blood (Acts 15:20)

5. Meats offered to idols (Acts 15:29)

6. All appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22)

7. Fleshly lusts (1 Peter 2:11)

Seven Things to Avoid

1. Troublemakers (Romans 16:17)

2. Profane and vain babblings (1 Timothy 6:20)

3. False science (1 Timothy 6:20)

4. Unlearned questions (2 Timothy 2:23)

5. Foolish questions (Titus 3:9)

6. Genealogies (Titus 3:9)

7. Arguments about the law (Titus 3:9)

Three Ask

1. Ask and ye shall receive (Matthew 7:7)

2. Ask no return of goods (Luke 6:30)

3. Ask life for backsliders (1 John 5:16)

Two Things to Awake to

1. Awake to righteousness (1 Corinthians 15:34)

2. Awake To Life (Ephesians 5:14)

Seventy–four Be

1. Be exceeding glad (Matthew 5:12)

2. Be reconciled to a brother (Matthew 5:24)

3. Be perfect (Matthew 5:48; 2 Corinthians 13:11)

4. Be wise as serpents (Matthew 10:16)

5. Be harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16)

6. Be ready for Christ's coming (Matthew 24:44; Luke 12:40)

7. Be content with your wages (Luke 3:14)

8. Be merciful as God (Luke 6:36)

9. Be like faithful servants (Luke 12:36)

10. Be thankful (Colossians 3:15)

11. Be at peace among selves (1 Thessalonians 5:13)