If God So Loved Us We Also Ought To Love One Another

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another - 1 John 4:11. 

Commandment of God

Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ - Matthew 22: 37-39.

We need to love each other

a)With actions and in truth 

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth - 1 John 3:18. 

b)With a pure heart 

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. 

c)Love each other deeply

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins - 1 Peter 4:8.

d)Must love his brother

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? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also - 1 John 4:20,21. 

If we love one another

a)We are His disciples

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another - John 13:34,35.

b)We are born of God

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love - 1 John 4:7,8. 

c)God abides in us

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

d)We abide in God

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him - 1 John 4:12-16.

e)We know God

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love - 1 John 4:7. 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 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. Love never fails - 1 Corinthians 13:1-8.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma - Ephesians 5:2.

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us love one another like how You loved us. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.