35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? …
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. …
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
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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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