October 25, 2006 - Wednesday
A New Commandment...
John 13:34 says: So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."
Galatians 6:10 says, Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.
1 Cor. 13 says,
(1) If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
(2) If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.
(3) If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
(4) Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
(5) or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
(6) It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
(7) Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
(8) Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
(9) Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
(10) But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
(11) When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
(12) Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
(13) Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
In light of those Scriptures, I thought the following list was a good study of what our LOVE should look like according to the New Testament.
If you will notice, just as we are told to do good to all men, and yet the Scriptures say, "especially to those in the faith"...our brothers and sisters in Christ, some of the things in the list pertain to us concerning all men, and some things pertain mainly to the body of believers.
Enjoy and Be Blessed!
Teresa
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The One-Anothers of the New Testament
The Gospels
1. "…Be at peace with each other" (Mark 9:50)
2. "…Wash one another's feet" (John 13:14)
3. "…Love one another…" (John 13:34-35; John 15:12, 17)
Paul's Letters
Romans, I Corinthians, II Corinthians4. "Love one another"(Romans 13:8)
5. "Be devoted to one another in brotherly love…" (Romans 12:10)
6. "Honor one another above yourselves" (Romans 12:10)
7. "Live in harmony with one another…" (Romans 12:16)
8. "…Stop passing judgment on one another" (Romans 14:13)
9. "Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you…" (Romans 15:7)
10. "…instruct one another" (Romans 15:4)
11. "Greet one another with a holy kiss…" (Romans 16:16; I Corinthians 16:20, II Corinthians
13:12; I Thessalonians 5:26)
12. "…When you come together for the Lord's supper, wait for each other" (I Corinthians 11:33)
13. "…Have equal concern for each other" (I Corinthians 12:25)
14. "…Serve one another in love" (II Corinthians 13:12)Galatians, Ephesians
15. "Carry each other's burdens…" (Galatians 6:2)
16. "If you keep on biting and devouring each other…you will be destroyed by each other" (Galatians 5:15)
17. "Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other" (Galatians 5:26)
18. "…Be patient, bearing with one another in love" (Ephesians 4:2)
19. "Be kind and compassionate to one another…" (Ephesians 4:32)
20. "…forgiving each other…" (Ephesians 4:32)
21. "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" (Ephesians 5:19)
22. "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ" (Ephesians 5:21)
Philippians, Colossians23. "…in humility consider others better than yourselves" (Philippians 2:3)
24. "Do not lie to each other…" (Colossians 3:9)
25. "Bear with each other…" (Colossians 3:13)
26. "…Forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another" (Colossians 3:13)
27. "Teach…[one another]" (Colossians 3:16)
28. "…admonish one another" (Colossians 3:16)I Thessalonians, Hebrews
29. "…make your love increase and overflow for each other" (I Thessalonians 3:12)
30. "Encourage one another" (I Thessalonians 4:18, 5:11; Hebrews 10:25)
31. "…Build each other up…" (I Thessalonians 5:11)
32. "Encourage one another daily…" (Hebrews 3:13)
33. "Spur one another on toward love and good deeds" (Hebrews 10:24)
Other Letters
James, I Peter, I John, II John34. "…Do not slander one another" (James 4:11)
35. "Don't grumble against each other" (James 5:9)
36. "Confess your sins to each other…" (James 5:16)
37. "…Pray for each other" (James 5:16)
38. "…Love one another deeply, from the heart" (I Peter 1:22, 4:8)
39. "…Live in harmony with one another…" (I Peter 3:8)
40. "Greet one another with a kiss of love" (I Peter 5:14)
41. "Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling" (I Peter 4:9)
42. "Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others…" (I Peter 4:10)
43. "…Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another…" (I Peter 5:15)
44. "Love one another" (I John 3:11, 23, 4:7,11,12; II John 5)
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