Behaviour
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· 9 viewsA person’s actions or way of life. Good behaviour will not earn salvation, but believers must practise good behaviour in accordance with Scripture as evidence of their conversion. Scripture stresses that bad behaviour is inconsistent with Christian faith and urges believers to mend their ways.
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Examples of good behaviour
Examples of good behaviour
Ge 6:22; Lk 1:6
See also Ge 5:24; 2 Ki 18:3; Job 1:8; Jn 1:47; 3 Jn 3; 3 Jn 5–6; 3 Jn 12
Examples of bad behaviour
Examples of bad behaviour
Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.
See also Ge 4:8; Ge 6:5; 1 Sa 25:3; 2 Ti 4:14; 3 Jn 9–10
Good behaviour towards God is commanded
Good behaviour towards God is commanded
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Obedience to God’s word
Obedience to God’s word
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
See also Ps 19:7–11; Ps 119:1–4
Good behaviour towards other people is commanded
Good behaviour towards other people is commanded
having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
See also Ex 20:12–17; Ps 15:1–5; Pr 12:2 Pr 10:1-31:31 contains much wisdom concerning good and bad behaviour; Mt 5:21–24
Good behaviour does not earn salvation
Good behaviour does not earn salvation
Ro 3:20; Tt 3:5
See also Ga 2:15–16; Eph 2:8–9; Php 3:9
Good behaviour confirms a believer’s profession of faith
Good behaviour confirms a believer’s profession of faith
Jas 2:14–19; 2 Pe 1:5–11
See also Mt 7:16–20
Obedience to Jesus Christ and his teachings
Obedience to Jesus Christ and his teachings
“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
See also Jn 14:15; Jn 14:23; Jn 15:10; Col 3:16
A believer has died to sin and is alive to God
A believer has died to sin and is alive to God
Romans 6:11–14 (NKJV)
Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
See also Ro 6:2; Ro 6:19; Ga 5:16; Ga 5:24–25; Eph 4:22–24; Col 3:1; Col 3:5; Col 3:9–10; 1 Th 5:5–8