11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. …
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)As the Spirit of truth is known by doctrine (thus spirits are to be tried), it is known by love likewise; and so here follows a strong fervent exhortation to holy Christian love: Beloved, let us love one another , 1 John 4:7. The apostle would unite them in his love, that he might unite them in love to each other: “ Beloved , I beseech you, by the love I bear to you, that you put on unfeigned mutu…
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