5 Practical Ways to ‘Love Because He First Loved Us’
Clarence L. Haynes Jr.
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We, though, are going to love - love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
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If anyone boasts, "I love God," and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won't love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can't see?
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The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both.
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Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
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