How Many NT Commandments?

[Sis Ann Brown]

Years ago I found this list in the appendix of the Dake's Bible.
The Jews claim that there are 613 Commandments in the Torah.
If this list is accurate there are almost 2x the number of commandments in the NT as in the OT:

1,050 New Testament Commands

Seven "Abstains" - Abstain from :

1. Idols (ACTS 15:20)
2. Fornication (ACTS 15:20,29; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:2-3)
3. Strangled meats (ACTS 15:20)
4. Eating blood (ACTS 15:20)
5. Meats offered to idols (ACTS 15:29)
6. All appearance of evil (1 THESSALONIANS 5:22)
7. Fleshly lusts (1 PETER 2:11)

Seven Things to Avoid:

1. Troublemakers (ROMANS 16:17)
2. Profane and vain babblings (1 TIMOTHY 6:20)
3. False science (1 TIMOTHY 6:20)
4. Unlearned questions (2 TIMOTHY 2:23)
5. Foolish questions (TITUS 3:9)
6. Genealogies (TITUS 3:9)
7. Arguments about the law (TITUS 3:9)

Three "Asks":

1. Ask and ye shall receive (MATTHEW 7:7)
2. Ask no return of goods (LUKE 6:30)
3. Ask life for backsliders (1 JOHN 5:16)

Two Things to Awake to:

1. Awake to righteousness (1 CORINTHIANS 15:34)
2. Awake to life (EPHESIANS 5:14)

Seventy-four "Be's":

1. Be exceeding glad (MATTHEW 5:12)
2. Be reconciled to a brother (MATTHEW 5:24)
3. Be perfect (MATTHEW 5:48; 2 CORINTHIANS 13:11)
4. Be wise as serpents (MATTHEW 10:16)
5. Be harmless as doves (MATTHEW 10:16)
6. Be ready for Christ's coming (MATTHEW 24:44; LUKE 12:40)
7. Be content with your wages (LUKE 3:14)
8. Be merciful as God (LUKE 6:36)
9. Be like faithful servants (LUKE 12:36)
10. Be thankful (COLOSSIANS 3:15)
11. Be at peace among selves (1 THESSALONIANS 5:13)
12. Be patient toward all people (1 THESSALONIANS 5:14; 2 TIMOTHY 2:24)
13. Be no partaker of sin (1 TIMOTHY 5:22)
14. Be sober and hope (1 PETER 1:13)
15. Be sober and pray (1 PETER 4:7)
16. Be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, charity, and patience (aged men, TITUS 2:2)
17. Be sober, love husbands and children (young women, TITUS 2:4)
18. Be sober minded (young men, TITUS 2:6)
19. Be in behaviour as becoming to saints (aged women, TITUS 2:3)
20. Be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient (young women, TITUS 2:5)
21. Be ready to give an answer of the hope that is in you (1 PETER 3:15)
22. Be of good cheer (JOHN 16:33)
23. Be baptized (ACTS 2:38)
24. Be converted (ACTS 3:19)
25. Be transformed (ROMANS 12:2)
26. Be kind of brotherly love one to another (ROMANS 12:10; EPHESIANS 4:32)
27. Be fervent in spirit (ROMANS 12:11)
28. Be patient in tribulation (ROMANS 12:12)
29. Be given to hospitality (ROMANS 12:13)
30. Be afraid, if lawless (ROMANS 13:4)
31. Be no idolater (1 CORINTHIANS 10:7)
32. Be followers of Paul as he followed Christ (1 CORINTHIANS 11:1; PHILIPPIANS 3:17)
33. Be followers of God (EPHESIANS 5:1)
34. Be followers of the faithful and patient (HEBREWS 6:12)
35. Be children in malice (1 CORINTHIANS 14:20)
36. Be men in understanding (1 CORINTHIANS 14:20)
37. Be steadfast (1 CORINTHIANS 15:58)
38. Be unmoveable (1 CORINTHIANS 15:58)
39. Be always abounding in God's work (1 CORINTHIANS 15:58)
40. Be strong in the Lord (1 CORINTHIANS 16:13; EPHESIANS 6:10; 2 TIMOTHY 2:1)
41. Be of good comfort (2 CORINTHIANS 13:11)
42. Be of one mind (ROMANS 12:16; 2 CORINTHIANS 13:11; PHILIPPIANS 2:2; 1 PETER 3:8)
43. Be separate from the unclean (2 CORINTHIANS 6:17)
44. Be renewed in spirit (EPHESIANS 4:23)
45. Be angry and sin not (EPHESIANS 4:26)
46. Be tender-hearted one to another (EPHESIANS 4:32)
47. Be filled with the Spirit (EPHESIANS 5:18)
48. Be likeminded (PHILIPPIANS 2:2)
49. Be one of accord (PHILIPPIANS 2:2)
50. Be anxious for nothing (PHILIPPIANS 4:6)
51. Be an example to believers in word, conversation, charity, spirit, faith, and purity (1 TIMOTHY 4:12)
52. Be a partaker of Christian sufferings (2 TIMOTHY 1:8; cp. 1 PETER 4:1)
53. 53. Be gentle to all people (2 TIMOTHY 2:24)
54. 54. Be apt to teach (2 TIMOTHY 2:24)
55. 55. Be instant in season, out of season (2 TIMOTHY 4:2)
56. Be careful to maintain good works (TITUS 3:8,14; cp. MATTHEW 5:16)
57. Be content with what you have (HEBREWS 13:5)
58. Be doers of the Word (JAMES 1:22)
59. Be afflicted and mourn (JAMES 4:9)
60. Be patient till Christ comes (JAMES 5:7-8)
61. Be holy in conversation (behaviour) (1 PETER 1:15-16)
62. Be pitiful (1 PETER 3:8)
63. Be courteous (1 PETER 3:8)
64. Be examples of the flock of God, not lord over it (1 PETER 5:3)
65. Be subject one to another (1 PETER 5:5)
66. Be clothed with humility (1 PETER 5:5)
67. Be sober (1 PETER 5:8)
68. Be vigilant (1 PETER 5:8)
69. Be mindful of prophecies and command­ments (2 PETER 3:2)
70. Be diligent to be found in peace (2 PETER 3:14)
71. Be diligent to be without spot, and blameless (2 PETER 3:14)
72. Be faithful to death (REVELATION 2:10)
73. Be watchful, strengthen self (REVELATION 3:2)
74. Be zealous and repent (REVELATION 3:19)

Read the rest of the list on this site:
http://www.cai.org.au/bible-studies/1050-new-testament-commands