JESUS SAYS ABOUT LOVE: MATTHEW 5:43-48

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Love

a) The Bible is full of great verses and passages about love.  God’s love for us is a perfect example. There are also great verses about love in relation to marriage, brotherly love or friendship, and loving your neighbor.  

1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will ceases; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

2. Jesus Says About Love 

Matthew 5:43-48  
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?  You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. 

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