 | 1861 - 1366 pagini
...Further, as in the case of righteousness and of purity we have Christ as the measure of this love. We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us. We ought to do the same. Now, if our brother has need. and we possess this world's good, but do not... | |
 | Forward Movement Publications - 1964 - 180 pagini
...fulfill the law of Christ. — Galatians 6:2 Lord, have mercy upon us, and give us the mind of Christ. How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's...a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little Litanies and Meditations children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.... | |
 | Patrick D. Miller - 1990 - 284 pagini
...First Letter of John makes the Deuteronomic 137 point with equal clarity and directness: But if anyone has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes one's heart against him or her, how does God's love abide in such a one? Little children,... | |
 | James M. Childs - 1992 - 180 pagini
...needs of all people is perhaps most concisely expressed for the New Testament ethos in 1 John 3:17, "How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's...and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?"6 To summarize, our brief consideration of these two commandments and their biblical background... | |
 | Frederick Houk Borsch - 1999 - 228 pagini
...find out about agape, we discover first of all that it is described by the life and death of Jesus. "We know love by this, that he laid down his life...and we ought to lay down our lives for one another" (1 John 3: 16). We know what the life of Jesus was like and the story of how he died for us only from... | |
 | Thomas Ryan, Thomas P. Ryan - 1993 - 284 pagini
...calling of the Christian community. The same emphasis is woven throughout the First Letter of John: How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's...a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action (3:17-18). Those who say,... | |
 | Jürgen Becker - 1993 - 368 pagini
...to question their motives, unless this is justified by such pictures as John offers in 1 John 3:17: "How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's...and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses to help?" In fact it may not only be generous but completely correct to suppose that their intention... | |
 | Walter Brueggemann, Charles B. Cousar, Beverly Roberts Gaventa - 1993 - 632 pagini
...warning about the power sin and hate have to produce death. With v. 16, the topic of love returns. "We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us." The simplicity and drama of this statement warrant attention. Love itself is taught by Christ's act.... | |
 | Gerald R McDermott - 1996 - 262 pagini
...orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world" (Jas 1:27) .John asks, "How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's...a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?" (1 Jn 3:17). In Christ's description of the Day of Judgment (Mt 25) , we arejudged by how we treated... | |
 | R. Kendall Soulen - 1996 - 212 pagini
...Jesus thereby frees his disciples to live in such a way that the blessing of others knows no bounds.10 "We know love by this, that he laid down his life...and we ought to lay down our lives for one another" (1 John 3:16). Few writers have articulated more emphatically than Bonhoeffer the point that Christian... | |
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We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us — and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. 
