18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, …
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. …
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-19)The beloved apostle can scarcely touch upon the mention of sacred love, but he must enlarge upon the enforcement of it, as here he does by divers arguments and incentives thereto; as, I. That it is a mark of our evangelical justification, of our transition into a state of life: We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren , 1 John 3:14. We are by nature children of…
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