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Did you know that First John has more about love, pound for pound, than any book in the Bible?
Our favorite chapter on love is 1 Corinthians 13. Its poetry and truth sweep us up to the third heaven! It may interest you to know that the word “love” appears in that chapter 9 times. In 1 John 4 “love” appears 25 times! 1 Corinthians has the elegance of love, but John has the get-er-done of love.
John uses more, “love one another’s”, than any other Bible contributor. “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7).
There is a church tradition which says that when John was an old man in Ephesus, he had to be carried to the church by the arms of his disciples. At these meetings, he was accustomed to say no more than, “Little children, love one another!” After a time, the leaders wearied at always hearing the same words. They asked, “Master, why do you always say this?” “It is the Lord’s command,” was his reply. “And if this alone be done, it is enough!”
Perhaps you’d like to read the other love chapter – 1 John 4.
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