Behaviour
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· 5 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
But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight 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 place of slavery. Do not have other gods besides me. Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.
Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates. For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
Obedience to God’s word
Obedience to God’s word
Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it 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
Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.
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, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was 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
So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the 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