Teachings OT vs NT

OLD TESTAMENT WITH COMPARABLE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING

Proverbs 2:1-5

Verse 1 – My Son, if you receive My words, and treasure Thy commands within you.

1 John 2:14 – I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

Verse 2 – So that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding.

Romans 10:8-10 – The Word is near you (“That is, the Word of faith which we preach”):  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Verse 3 – Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift your voice for  understanding.

Matthew 13:23 – He who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the Word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and  produces; some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Verse 4 – If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures.

I Peter 1:10-11 – This salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the       sufferings of Christ and the glories that follow.

Verse 5 – Then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Acts 17:11-12 – These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so; therefore, many of them believed.

2 Peter 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.