What does loving one another involve?
There are many general references to Christian love in the New Testament. But the key to answering this specific question is to concentrate on the words ‘one another’. We will get a good idea of what loving one another involves if we look at God’s commandments about our behaviour towards one another. There are always two sides to questions like this: a negative side and a positive side. There are things that love excludes and other things that love includes. Before seeing what love involves it will be useful to clear the ground of the negative aspects.
Terence Peter Crosby, Opening up 2 and 3 John, Opening Up Commentary (Leominster: Day One Publications, 2006), 33.
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