Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.—Matthew 22:37-39Thoughts on Today's Verse...Some things are just not complicated to understand. However, th
We love because he first loved us.—1 John 4:19Thoughts on Today's Verse...It's all very simple. God is love (1 John 4:7-8). He is love's origin, example, and architect. I love because God loved me first. I know how to love because he has demonstrated it in Jesus. I can love because he made me in his
Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved.—Ephesians 2:4-5Thoughts on Today's Verse...God is rich in mercy and generous with grace! Isn't that wonderful for us? I don't know
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.—1 John 4:18Thoughts on Today's Verse...What is there to fear since nothing can separate us from the love God has for us in Christ Jesus? (Romans 8:38-39)
The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.—Romans 13:9-10T
He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.—Proverbs 17:9Thoughts on Today's Verse...You've probably heard this poisonous statement many times: "It's just a little harmless gossip." The Wise Teacher reminds us that gossip is neither little nor
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.—1 John 4:11-12Thoughts on Today's Verse...Can you imagine what an honor it is to have the Creator of the universe, the LO
