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Leviticus 19:18. “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself : I am the LORD.”. Romans 13:8-10.
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Leviticus 19:18 “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.”
Romans 13:8-10 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Matthew 22:36-40 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 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. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
“the darkness is past and the true light now shineth” (KJV) “the darkness is passing away and the true light now shineth” (ESV) “the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.” (NAS) “the darkness is passing and the true light it already shining.” (NIV)
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
Resentment: 1 John 3:12 • Callousness: 1 John 3:18 • Sin/immaturity: 1 John 4:7-21 • Prejudice: 1 John 5:1-3
Summary • Love has always been the standard! • Our ability to love was changed and improved by Jesus • Love dispels darkness now and in the future • Hatred means: darkness, stumbling, lostness