PERPETUAL, HABITUAL, INTENTIONAL LOVE
Jesus declared, “‘LoveG25 the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘LoveG25 your neighbor as yourself.’ All…
LOVE PERFECTED
No one has ever seen God; but if we loveG25 one another, God remains in us, and His loveG26 is perfectedG5048 in us. 1 John 4:12 (BSB) G5048 τελειόω teleióō – (II) Metaphorically meaning to make perfect although not faultless…
WE OUGHT TO LOVE
BelovedG27, if God so lovedG25 us, we also oughtG3784 to loveG25 one another. 1 John 4:11 G3784 ὀφείλω opheílō – Metaphorically, to be bound or obligated to perform a duty, meaning I ought, must . . . Zodhiates, Spiros, The…
GOD’S LOVE REVEALED
This is how God’s loveG26 was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. And loveG26 consists in this: not that we lovedG25 God, but that He lovedG25…
GOD IS LOVE
BelovedG27, let us loveG25 one another, because loveG26 comes from God. Everyone who lovesG25 has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not loveG25 does not know God, because God is loveG26. 1 John 4:7-8 (BSB) G27 agapētós …
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
LOVE IN ACTION AND TRUTH
By this we know what loveG26 is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we oughtG3784 to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from…
DISTINGUISHED BY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousnessG1343 is not of God, nor is anyone who does not loveG25 his brother. This is the message you have heard…
ADONAI’S ADDITION
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, loveG26. For…
SINCERE LOVE FROM SANCTIFIED HEARTS
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine loveG5360 for your brothers, loveG25 one another deeply, from a pure heart. 1 Peter 1:22 (BSB) Since by your obedience to the truth…