CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST
When the Messiah was executed on the stake as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer lives. But the Messiah lives in me, and the life I now live in my body I live by…
LOVE DOES NOT AND IS NOT
It does not envyG2206, it does not boastG4068, it is not proudG5448. 1 Corinthians 13:4b G2206 ζηλόω zēlóō – to envy, be moved with envy (Acts 7:9; 1 Cor. 13:4; James 4:2) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible envy (verb)…
NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not loveG26, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,…
UNFAILING, EVERLASTING LOVE
Who shall separate us from the loveG26 of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as…
WHAT IS GOOD?
And we know that God works all things together for the goodG18 of those who loveG25 Him, who are called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son,…
VICTORIOUS, SACRIFICIAL LOVE
LOVE IS LAYING DOWN OUR LIVES
This is My commandment, that you loveG25 one another as I have lovedG25 you. Greater loveG26 has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. . . This is My command to you: LoveG25 one…
DOES THE LORD MAKE HIS HOME WITH YOU?
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who lovesG25 Me. The one who lovesG25 Me will be lovedG25 by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.” . . . Jesus replied, “If…
KNOWN BY OUR LOVE
A new commandment I give you: LoveG25 one another. As I have lovedG25 you, so you also must loveG25 one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you loveG26 one another. John 13:34-35 How did…
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES (EASIER SAID THAN DONE)
But to those of you who will listen, I say: LoveG25 your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. . . Do to others as you would have…