Love manifests itself in almsgiving

Deut 15:7; 11; Mt 25:34-45; Mk 12:41-44; Lk 21:1-4; 1Cor 13:3; 2Cor 8:1-8; 9:7; Jas 2:16; 1Jn 3:17-18

Husband and wife should love one another

Eph 5:25; Col 3:19; 1Pet 3:7

Prayer

“The man whose prayer is so pure that he never asks God for anything does not know who God is, and does not know who he is himself: for he does not know his own need of God.” Thomas Merton

Prayer is praise of God

1Chron 29:13; 2Chron 20:21-22; Ps 21:13; 22:23; 89:5; 113:1; 148; 149; 150; Lk 19:37; Rev 19:5

Petition to God

Ex 32:11-13; 33:17; 34:9; Josh 7:6; Mt 7:7-11; Mk 11:24

Thanksgiving to God

Neh 12:8; 46; Tobit 13:1 ff; Jud 16:1 ff; Ps 35:18; 109:30; Sirach 51:1 ff; 2Cor4:15; Phil 4:4-6; Rev 7:12

Prayer to be made with faith

Lk 11:9; 18:1-8; Jn 14:13; 15:7
 

- in the name of Jesus
Jn 14:13; 15:7; Acts 3:16; 1Jn 3:22; 5:14

With perseverance
Mt 15:22-28; Lk 11:5-8; 18:1-8; Rom 12:12; Eph 6:18; Col 4:2
 

Prayer offered kneeling
2Chron 6:13; Ps 95:6; Dan 6:10; Lk 22:41; Acts 9:40; 20:36
 

Prayer offered standing
1Chron 23:30; Neh 9:5; Mk 11:25; Lk 18:11
 

Prayer is community offering

Ps 42:4; 122:1; Mt 18:19; Lk 24:53; Acts 1:14; 3:1; 4:24; 6:4; 20:36; 1Tim 2:8

Prayer offered privately
2Kings 4:33; Tobit 3:11; Is 26:20; Dan 6:11; Mt 6:6; Acts 9:11; 9:40; 10:9
 

Prayer offered for special ministry

Acts 13:3; 14:23

Prayer for growth in spiritual life

Eph 3:14-19; Phil 1:9-11

Pray for each other
Acts 12:5; Rom 15:30; 2Cor 1:11; Eph 6:18; Col 4:3; 1Thess 5:25; 2Thess 3:1; 1Tim 2:1; Heb 13:18

Prayer for dead

2 Mac 12:42-45

Temple called house of prayer

Is 56:7; Mt 21:13; Mk 11:17

The Lord's prayer
Mt 6:9; Lk 11:2

THE LAST THINGS

Death

Physical death a consequence of sin

Gen 3; Wis 1:13; 2:24; Sirach 25-24; Rom 5:12; 1Cor 15:22

Death ends our mortal existence
Job 7:8-9; 21; 14:10; Ps 39:13; 88:5; 102:23-24; Eccles 3:19-22; 6:1-12; Lk 12:20

Death is man's common destiny
2Sam 12:23; 14:14; 1 Kings 2:2; Ps 49:8-9; Eccles 3

Death brings sorrow
Gen 23:2; 50:1; 2Sam 19:1; 2Kings 13:14; Lk 7:12-13; Jn 11:19;

Death is to be feared
2Kings 20:2; Is 38:2; Mk 14:33; Lk 22:44; Jn 11:33; 38; 12:27; 13:21; Heb 5:7

Christ has conquered death
Acts 13:34; Rom 6:9; 1Cor 15:25-27; 2Tim 1:10; Heb 2:14; Rev 1:18

All who die in Christ shall live with him

Rom 6:5; 8; 8:17; 2Tim 2:11

Purgatory

Purification necessary for heaven Heb
12:14; Rev 21:27

An intermediate state of purification
Mt 5:26; Lk 12:58-59

Degrees of expiation of sins
Lk 12:47-48

Can be aided by prayer
2Mac 12:45

Salvation; but only as through fire

1Cor 3:15

Temporary agony
1 Cor 3:15; Mt 5:25-26

Christ preached to spiritual beings
1 Pet 3:19

Nothing unclean shall enter heaven
Rev 21:27

Sacrifice for the dead
2 Mac 12:43-46

A reality beyond the two realms of Heaven and Earth a place between or near

2 Cor 5:10; Rev; 5: 2;3 Rev; 5:23; Phil 2:10; Matt 18: 23-25 Luke 23:42

No forgiveness in this age nor in the age to come.

Mt 12:32

"Extra" suffering.
Col 1:24; 2 Sam 12:14

Hell - (Gehenna)

Prepared for devil and his angels
Mt 25:41; Rev 14:9-11

Place of darkness and silence
Ps 88:6; 115:17; Mt 8:12; 22-13; 25:30; 2Pet 2:17; Jude 13
 

Called a pit
Job 26:5-6; Ps 88:6; 2 Pet 2:4
 

Called a prison Job
38:17; Is 24:22