34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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:
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-35)This and what follows, to the end of John 13:31-14:31; was Christ’s table-talk with his disciples. When supper was done, Judas went out; but what did the Master and his disciples do, whom he left sitting at table? They applied themselves to profitable discourse, to teach us as much as we can to make conversation with our friends at table serviceable to religion. Christ begins this discourse. The m…
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