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In keeping with Christ’s example, Christians learn about love from God’s book, the Bible, and from interacting with one another— particularly in the context of the church, the family of God. Christlike love for others cannot be learned merely by reading a book in isolation from people.
What do you think God means when He says to love him with all you are and to love your neighbor as yourself? 7. Is your definition of love based on your ideas, what you learned, or what you have taken from scripture?
Topics. 1 -- "An Over-View of Love from Scripture". 2 -- "The Importance of Biblical Love". 3 -- "What Makes Divine Love so Different?" 4 -- "Love in Action". 5 -- "Love for God: The Greatest Commandment". 6 -- "Love and the Church". 7 -- "Love in the Home". 8 -- "Love in the Community".
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Perhaps the single most helpful passage to furnish a working biblical definition of love is 1 Jn 4:16,17. It shows love is not simply doing for others what they think we should for them . . . or ourselves! 1 Jn 4:16,17: "16Indeed we have known (Gk perfect tense) and have believed (Gk perfect tense) the love which the God has within (1722/en) us.
This study is on love, the subject of the two great commandments, and the means of our salvation. It is all we are called to do. If we love God and those around us through Jesus Christ, we will be with God for eternity. My hope is that this study will help those who use it
I. CONSIDERED as a monument of the Greek language at a particular stage of its development, the New Testament is a very interesting document; and not least so in the terminology which it employs to express the emotion of love.
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Bible, Jesus answered, “It is this; ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.’ That is the first and most important commandment, and the second is like it (equally as important); ‘You shall love your neighbor as you do yourself.’” (Matthew 22:37-40)