Final commands to Christians

Build up yourselves on your most holy faith

Jude 1:20  

But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 1:4  

nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work—which is by faith.

Pray in the Holy Ghost

Jude 1:20  

But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 6:18  

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

Romans 8:26  

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

Keep yourselves in the love of God

2 Timothy 1:14  

Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

Romans 8:35-39  

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ

Hebrews 12:15  

See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

Hate even the garment spotted by the flesh

James 1:27  

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Ephesians 5:27  

And to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.