"And when ye , my chosen ones give alms, do not proclaim it to anybody. If ye proclaim it to anybody ye do not give. When ye give alms with your right hand do not tell your left hand: when you give alms with your left hand, do not tell your right hand. He who gives alms and proclaim it - to him the reward shall be denied and it shall not abscribed to him." Ginza 115/ 16-20
"Blessed are they that listen and believe" Ginza 18/19
"all things whatsoever that are hateful to you, do not ye do them to your neighbor" Book of John 20
"Honor thy mother and thy father and thy elder brothers as thy father" Ginza 14/ 18-19
"Perfect and faithful: do not deviate from your words and love not lies and falsehood. " Ginza
"If ye have children…then teach them, when they have grown up the wisdom of truth and let them wander the road of Kusta (truth): if ye do not teach them ye will be deem guilty in the house of judgment: if ye teach them and they do not learn they have to account for their sins themselves" Ginza 22/ 16-18
"Take a wife and found a family, so that the world may multiply through you" Ginza 16
"Love not gold and silver and the possessions of this world, for this world will come to nothing and perish and its possessions and its works will be abandoned. " Ginza
"Fast with your eyes from winking, and do not see or practice evil." Ginza
" Fast with your ears from eavesdropping at doors which do not belong to you. "Ginza
"Fast with your mouths from the wanton lies and do not love falsehood and deceit. "Ginza
Fast with your hearts from wicked thoughts and do not harbor malice, jealousy, and dissension in your hearts" Ginza
" Fast with your hands from committing murder and do not commit robbery." Ginza
" Fast with your body from the married woman who does not belong to you." Ginza
" Fast with your knees from prostration (or, kneeling down) before Satan and do not kneel before images of deception." Ginza
"Fast with your feet from going craftily after something that does not belong to you. " Ginza
"Give bread, water, and shelter to poor and persecuted people who suffer persecution." Ginza
"Do not commit adultery or fornicate, do not sing or dance. Do not let your heart be fettered by Satan’s singing, which is full of magic, deception, and seduction ... " Ginza
"Do not eat the blood of animals, not one dead, not one pregnant, not one casting its young, not one standing (or, what has fallen), and not one which a wild animal attacked. But slaughter with iron and rinse, wash, purify, cook, and eat it." Ginza
"Do not worship Satan, the idols, the images, the error, and the confusion of this world: whoever worships Satan falls into the blazing fire until the day of judgment, until the hour, the hours of release, as long as the sublime King of Light desires it." Ginza
I have left the best for last. First the Mandaeans accept no power over them but that of God and the second is their belief in complete peace. It is written;
"…The soldiers were many and marched with cannon and gunpowder. Their orders were to go to Jebel Mandai and to issue an iradah ordering the Mandai to become subjects of the Turks. If the Mandai were to refuse , then they were, by order of the Sultan, to fire upon the mountain…..The rish amma replied ‘We do not obey a Sultan. We give our obedience to God and we cannot obey the will of any man or be under his hand." The envoy said "If you do not accept we shall fire our cannon upon you and kill you’ The rish amma replied ‘Let the cannons be fired! We shall overthrow you, but not in battle…"
Another example of how killing is forbidden.
"…But the powers on high saw and disapproved for war and killing are forbidden amongst the children of the Light…"
