![]() ![]() Job 6:14Īnyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land. There will always be poor people in the land. If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need. (All verses from the New International Version.) Here are 30 of our favorite verses about God’s call to love others. ![]() The call to love is often difficult, but it’s also a reminder of how God loves us: relentlessly, completely, and without expectation of return. We’re to love our neighbors, foreigners, our enemies … there’s no getting out of it. The call to love and help others in tangible ways - especially those weaker than ourselves - runs throughout the Bible. And he wants us to show that love to others. He wants us to experience incredible, life-changing love, mercy, and compassion not only from him, but from those around us. ( BI)We know by this that ( BJ)He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us.Note: Images taken prior to the CDC’s recommendation to wear masks in public. 24 And the one who ( BG)keeps His commandments ( BH)abides in Him, and He in him. 21 ( AY)Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have ( AZ)confidence before God 22 and ( BA)whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we ( BB)keep His commandments and do ( BC)the things that are pleasing in His sight.Ģ3 And this is His commandment, that we ( BD)believe in ( BE)the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as ( BF)He gave a commandment to us. 19 And by this we will know that we are ( AX)of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him 20 in whatever our heart condemns us for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. 17 But ( AS)whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and ( AT)closes his heart against him, ( AU)how does the love of God abide in him? 18 ( AV)Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and ( AW)truth. 16 By this we have known love, that ( AP)He laid down His life for us and ( AQ)we ought to lay down our lives for the ( AR)brothers. 15 Everyone who ( AN)hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that ( AO)no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. The one who does not love abides in death. ![]() 14 We know that we have ( AL)passed out of death into life, ( AM)because we love the brothers. And for what reason did he slay him? Because ( AJ)his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.ġ3 Do not marvel, brothers, if ( AK)the world hates you. 10 By this the ( AA)children of God and the ( AB)children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who ( AC)does not love his ( AD)brother.ġ1 ( AE)For this is the message ( AF)which you have heard from the beginning, ( AG)that we should love one another 12 not as ( AH)Cain, who was of ( AI)the evil one and slew his brother. 9 Everyone who has been ( Y)born of God ( Z)does not sin, because His seed abides in him and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. ( V)The Son of God ( W)was manifested for this purpose, ( X)to destroy the works of the devil. 8 The one who does sin is ( U)of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. ( T)The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 7 ( R)Little children, let no one ( S)deceive you. 6 No one who abides in Him ( P)sins no one who sins has seen Him or ( Q)has come to know Him. 5 And you know that He ( M)was manifested in order to ( N)take away sins, and ( O)in Him there is no sin. 3 And everyone who has this ( J)hope fixed on Him ( K)purifies himself, just as He is pure.Ĥ Everyone who does sin also does lawlessness and ( L)sin is lawlessness. We know that when He ( G)is manifested, we will be ( H)like Him, because we will ( I)see Him just as He is. 2 ( D)Beloved, now we are ( E)children of God, and ( F)it has not been manifested as yet what we will be. For this reason the world does not know us, because ( C)it did not know Him. 3 See ( A)how great a love the Father has given to us, that we would be called ( B)children of God and we are. ![]()
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