No, I am not. You just don’t seem to understand what it all entails.
2Ti 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. (ESV)
Again, you are fallaciously equating the law of Moses with the rules and commands for believers.
I find it rather unbelievable that continue to ignore the numerous passages I have given which clearly show not only rules and commands for believers, but Paul
literally commanding Timothy
to command other believers to do certain things, avoid other things, and generally just how to live the Christian life.
1Co 14:37 If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that
the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.
1Co 14:38 If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
1Co 14:39 So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and
do not forbid speaking in tongues.
2Th 3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord about you,
that you are doing and will do the things that we command.
2Th 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
2Th 3:6 Now
we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you
keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2Th 3:7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you,
2Th 3:8 nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
2Th 3:9 It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.
2Th 3:10 For even when we were with you,
we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
2Th 3:11 For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
2Th 3:12 Now such persons
we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
2Th 3:13 As for you, brothers,
do notgrow weary in doing good.
2Th 3:14 If anyone
does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and
have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
2Th 3:15 Do not regard him as an enemy,
but warn him as a brother.
1Ti 4:11 Command and teach these things.
1Ti 5:7 Command these things as well,
so that they may be without reproach.
1Ti 6:11 But as for you, O man of God,
flee these things.
Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
1Ti 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses
1Ti 6:13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
1Ti 6:14 to keep the commandments unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1. Is Paul writing commands for believers in the above?
2. Is Paul commanding Timothy to command other believers?
1Jn 2:3 And by this we know that we have come to know him,
if we keep his commandments.
1Jn 2:4 Whoever says “I know him”
but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
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1Jn 2:7 Beloved, I am writing you
no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
1Jn 2:8 At the same time,
it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
1Jn 3:22 and whatever we ask we receive from him,
because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1Jn 3:23 And
this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another,
just as he has commanded us.
1Jn 3:24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
1Jn 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1Jn 4:21 And
this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
2Jn 1:4 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth,
just as we were commanded by the Father.
2Jn 1:5 And now I ask you, dear lady—
not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
2Jn 1:6 And this is love,
that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning,
so that you should walk in it.
3. Is John saying that we should follow the commands of Jesus?
4. What does John say about those who say they know Jesus but don’t follow his commandments?
(All ESV.)