LOVE ONE ANOTHER
AS I HAVE LOVED YOU !
in the love of Christ! Except in the matters of idol worship
[1 John 5:21; 1 Cor. 8:4-7], fornication, rapaciousness,
reviling, and other such gross sins [1 Cor. 5:9-11; 6:9-10],
division [16:17; Titus 3:10], and the denial of the incarnation
of Christ [2 John 7:-11], we must learn not to pass judgments
on the doctrinal views of others. As long as one is a genuine
Christian and has the fundamental faith of the New Testament,
we should not exclude him, even though he may differ from us
with respect to doctrine; rather, we should receive him in the
same one Lord.
The basis on which we receive the believers is that God
has received them. God receives people according to His Son.
When a person receives God's Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, as
his Savior, God receives that person immediately and ushers
him into the enjoyment of the Triune God and of all He has
prepared and accomplished in Christ for us. We should
recieve people in the same way and should not be more
narrow than God. Regardless of how much
they differ from us in doctrinal concepts
or religious practices, we must receive them.
When we receive people according to God and
not according to doctrine or practice, we
demonstrate and maintain the oneness of the
Body of Christ!
Below are some
verses to support
what I believe!
[Mat 22:37-39] And he said to him,
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your
mind. This is the great and first commandment. And
a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.
[Mark 12:33] and to love him with all the heart, and with all
the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love
one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices."
[John 13:34-35] A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you
also love one another. By this all men will know that you are
my disciples, if you have love for one another."
[John 15:12] "This is my commandment, that you love one
another as I have loved you.
[John 15:17] This I command you,
to love one another.
Still more verses
of light and life
below!!
[Rom 5:5]
and hope does not disappoint us,
because God's love has been poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.
[Rom 8:28] We know that in everything God works for
good with those who love him, who are called according to
his purpose.
[Rom 12:9-10] Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast
to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection;
outdo one another in showing honor.
[Rom 13:8-10] Owe no one anything, except to love one
another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall
not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any
other commandment, are summed up in this sentence,"You shall
love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no wrong to a
neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
[Rom 15:30] I appeal to you, brethren,
by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love
of the Spirit, to strive together with me
in your prayers to God on my behalf,
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more
verses
below!
[1Cor 8:1]
Now concerning food
offered to idols: we know that
"all of us possess knowledge."
"Knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
[1Cor 13:1-8] If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And
if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and
if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain
nothing. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or
boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist
on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does
not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for
tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
[1Cor 13:13] So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the
greatest of these is love.
[1Cor 14:1] Make love your aim, and earnestly
desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you
may prophesy.
[1Cor 16:14] Let all that you do be done in love.
Still
More!
[1Cor 16:24]
My love be with you all
in Christ Jesus. Amen.
[2Cor 5:14] For the love of Christ controls us,
because we are convinced that one has died for all;
therefore all have died.
[Gal 5:13-14] For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do
not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through
love be servants of one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in
one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
[Gal 5:22-23] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.
[Eph 3:16-19] that according to the riches of his glory he may
grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the
inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have
power to comprehend with all the saints what is the
breadth and length and height and depth, and to
know the love of Christ which surpasses
knowledge, that you may be filled with
all the fulness of God.
Just a few
More!
[Eph 4:1-3]
I therefore, a prisoner
for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of
the calling to which you have been called, with all
lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one
another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in
the bond of peace.
[Eph 4:15-16] Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up
in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the
whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it
is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily
growth and upbuilds itself in love.
[Eph 5:2] And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave
himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
[Phil 1:9] And it is my prayer that your love may abound more
and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
[Phil 2:2] complete my joy by being of the same mind,
having the same love, being in full accord and of
one mind.
[Col 2:2.] that their hearts may be encouraged
as they are knit together in love, to have all the
riches of assured understanding and the
knowledge of God's mystery, of Christ,
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More?
[Col 3:12-15]
Put on then, as God's
chosen ones, holy and beloved,
compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and
patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a
complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord
has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these
put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed
you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
[1Thess 3:12] and may the Lord make you increase and abound
in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you,
[1Thess 5:8] But, since we belong to the day, let us be
sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet
the hope of salvation.
[2Thess 1:3] We are bound to give thanks to God always for you,
brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly,
and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
[2Tim 1:7] for God did not give us a spirit of
cowardice, but of power and of love and of sober-
mindedness.
[2Tim 2:22] So shun youthful passions and aim at
righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with
those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Yes...There
Are More!
[Heb 13:1]
Let brotherly love
continue.
[1Pet 1:22] Having purified your souls by your
obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren,
love one another earnestly from the heart.
[1Pet 3:8] Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love
of the brethren, a tender heart and a humble mind.
[1Pet 4:8] Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since
love covers a multitude of sins.
[1John 3:11] For this is the message which you have heard
from the beginning, that we should love one another,
[1John 3:14] We know that we have passed out of death into life,
because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in
death.
[1John 3:16-18] By this we know love, that he laid
down his life for us; and we ought to lay down
our lives for the brethren. But if any one has the
world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet
closes his heart against him, how does God's love
abide in him? Little children, let us not love in
word or speech but in deed and in truth.
ALMOST
DONE!
[1John 3:23]
And this is his commandment,
that we should believe in the name of his Son
Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has
commanded us.
[1John 4:16-21] So we know and believe the love God has for us.
God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God
abides in him. In this is love perfected with us, that we may have
confidence for the day of judgment,because as he is so are we in
this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not
perfected in love. We love, because he first loved us. If any
one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar;
for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love
God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from
him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.
[1John 5:1-3] Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is
a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child.
By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and obey his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments. And his commandments are not
burdensome.
The Last
Verse!
[2John 1:5-6]
And now I beg you, lady, not as
though I were writing you a new commandment,but
the one we have had from the beginning, that we love
one another. And this is love, that we follow his command-
ments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the
beginning, that you follow love.
