Question: You guys Loving your brothers???
Loving One Another
7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
13 And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. 14 Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 All who confess that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.
18 Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. 19 We love each other[b] because he loved us first.
20 If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister,[c] that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.[d]
Footnotes:
b. 1 John 4:19 Greek We love. Other manuscripts read We love God; still others read We love him.
c. 1 John 4:20 Greek hates his brother.
d. 1 John 4:21 Greek The one who loves God must also love his brother.
4 comments:
I like to think so, but as always, the proof is in the pudding. These days, with so much going on, it hard to know up from down some days right? Bottomline is I can always do better and should start now.
I love verse 15. He is living in US!!!
Amen,
cas
I agree that we can always do better, and verse 17 is encouraging in that respect. What's most difficult for me is loving my brothers and sisters in Christ whom I don't see routinely. There are many that I love dearly, but time has a way of marching on and I have a way of losing touch.
tba
this is a great chapter. Time and other priorities and SEFLISHNESS get in the way of love.
This chapter really simplifies things - we tend to make our walk so difficult at times, but simply loving others like God loves us seems to be what it is all about. Funny how difficult we make that when as JMB says our other self oriented priorities get in the way....
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