Biblical Authority
The biblical teachings of Jesus include:
- Love of God: "You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind" (an excerpt from the Shema, -Matthew 22:37
- Fidelity in marriage: "Whom God has joined together let no man put asunder"
- Renunciation of worldly goods: "Gather not your riches up upon this earth, for there your heart will be also",
- Renunciation of violence: "If a man strikes you on one cheek, turn the other cheek",
- Forgiveness of sins: "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us",
- Unconditional love: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you".
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Famous quotes containing the word authority:
“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to,—for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well,—is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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