Love
🧵 Love: from God to us to others
Where love comes from, what it looks like, and what it asks of us.
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1 John 4:7-10
Love starts with God — we love because he first loved us, and he proved it by sending his Son.
7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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John 3:16
The most familiar verse in the Bible, and the shortest summary of the gospel.
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Romans 5:8
He loved us not when we were worthy but while we were still sinners.
8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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Romans 8:38-39
Nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Matthew 22:37-40
Everything hangs on two commands: love God completely, and love your neighbour as yourself.
37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
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John 13:34-35
A new command: love one another as Jesus loved us — and the world will notice.
34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
A portrait of what love actually does, patient and kind from the first line to the last.
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
