Why should we love one another?
BECAUSE GOD LOVES US
John was not the first one who could claim to love in truth. God himself has given us grace, mercy, and peace ‘in truth and love’ (2 John 3). We are to love one another because God loves us. Jesus gave his apostles a new commandment—‘A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another’ (John 13:34–35—see also 15:12). John had already taken up this theme in his first letter—‘Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another’ (1 John 4:11). So, in the words of the apostle Paul, we are to ‘walk in love, as Christ also has loved us’ (Eph. 5:2).
Terence Peter Crosby, Opening up 2 and 3 John, Opening Up Commentary (Leominster: Day One Publications, 2006), 32.
BPC are you love one another?
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