Luke 6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? &c.] Or, what grace have ye? this is no fruit, nor evidence of grace, nor any exerci...
1 Timothy 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant That is, the love of Jehovah the Father; so the Ethiopic version reads, the grace of G...
Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me And show their love by worshipping God, and him only, by serving him acceptably with...
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.] Lest love to God, and so to one another, should be thought to be of ourselves, and too much be as...
Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed As a vain hope does, things not answering to expectation, it deceives, and is lost; but the grace of hope is of...
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let its love one another The apostle having finished what he proposed to say concerning the trying of spirits, returns to his form...
Tractate LXXXII.Tractate LXXXII. John XV. 8-10.1. The Saviour, in thus speaking to the disciples, commends still more and more the grace whereby we ar...
Romans 5:4 And patience experience As tribulations tend to exercise and increase patience, so patience being exercised and increased, enlarges the sai...
Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love Either Christ himself, who is the truth, and is to be preached, and always spoken of with strong affecti...
Ephesians 6:24 Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ, &c.] Christ is the object of love, and a lovely object he is: he is to be lov...
John 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you The Father loved them as well, and as much as the Son did, and of himself too, without any merit or motiv...
GraceKindness; favor.But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us togeth...
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them He that has not merely the external revelation of them in the Bible; but has them written on...
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God By which may be meant either the grace and favour of God, that love with which God loves his people; and ...
Titus 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly Or richly; either which love he shed abroad in the hearts of those whom he regenerated and renewed by his Spi...
1 Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing The phrase without ceasing, is, by the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, joined to the las...
Romans 1:7 To all that be in Rome These words contain both the inscription of the epistle, and the apostle's usual salutation, as in all his epistles,...
1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word Either the word of the Gospel, and the truths of it, who receives it in love, cordially embraces and retains it,...
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we are the children God The Ethiopic version reads, by this know that we love God; which, in connection with what foll...
X. THE TRUE PROPORTION IN A CREED BETWEEN THE UNIVERSAL AND THE SPECIAL LOVE OF GOD It is objected that insufficient emphasis is laid in the Westmin...