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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 13:34-35
How did Christ love His disciples? How did He demonstrate His love to them?
Was it not, among other ways . . .
In His wonderful patience with them--with their faults, their ignorance, their unfaithfulness;
In His considerate kindness;
In His ever-watchful thoughtfulness;
In His compassionate gentleness;
In His ministering to them in every possible way?
What is it, then, to love one another, as He loves us?
Is it not to take His example for our pattern?
But how slowly we learn it!
How hard it is to be gentle, patient, kind, and thoughtful to one another!
Still, the lesson stands and waits for us, and we must never falter in learning it.
(JR Miller 1882)
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
1 Peter 3:8-9
By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 13:34-35
How did Christ love His disciples? How did He demonstrate His love to them?
Was it not, among other ways . . .
In His wonderful patience with them--with their faults, their ignorance, their unfaithfulness;
In His considerate kindness;
In His ever-watchful thoughtfulness;
In His compassionate gentleness;
In His ministering to them in every possible way?
What is it, then, to love one another, as He loves us?
Is it not to take His example for our pattern?
But how slowly we learn it!
How hard it is to be gentle, patient, kind, and thoughtful to one another!
Still, the lesson stands and waits for us, and we must never falter in learning it.
(JR Miller 1882)
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
1 Peter 3:8-9
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