Love One Another

 If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us - 1 John 4:12.

           God abides in us and His love is perfected in us if we love one another. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? - 1 John 4:20. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7..       

               Let us love others not with words but with actions. Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth - 1 John 3:18. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?  Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.  If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?  In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead - James 2:14-17. 

                Let us love on another like how God loved us. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another - John 13:34. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart - 1 Peter 1:22. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works - Hebrews 10:24.

                                                         

                                   

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to love one another fervently. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.