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We love him, because He first loved us. 

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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? 

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

(If you love, you will not attack or harm your friends behind their back.) 

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An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

(If we love, we will not destroy our friends with our words.) 

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Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

(The Old Testament word for love, hesed, means commitment. if you love someone, you also need to overlook defects or faults. love requires commitment and loyalty. it is easy to dismiss loyalty because we say that "oh, there is this problem and that problem". love without commitment is not love.) 

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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

(love must come with discernment) 

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15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

(Jesus has also taught us practical love, meeting people's needs) 

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Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

(Our mission in life is to to see the hurt, the lost, the sick and the needy through the eyes of Jesus. Then we can love them into his kingdom.) 

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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.  

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.  

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.  

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.  

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.  

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.  

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.  

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.  

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.  

But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.  

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.