True Christian Love: Difference between revisions
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The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another. ...Whoever does not love is still under the power of death. ...This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for our brothers and sisters! ...My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.<ref>American Bible Society, The Holy Bible: The Good News Translation, 2nd ed. (New York: American Bible Society, 1992), 1 Jn 3:11, 14, 16, 18.</ref> | :''The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another. ...Whoever does not love is still under the power of death. ...This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for our brothers and sisters! ...My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.<ref>American Bible Society, The Holy Bible: The Good News Translation, 2nd ed. (New York: American Bible Society, 1992), 1 Jn 3:11, 14, 16, 18.</ref> | ||
As is Peter: | As is Peter: | ||