What If: We Loved Our Neighbor

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot fully understand the workings of God.

Loving One Another

⁷Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. ⁸But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

³⁴So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. ³⁵Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

¹²This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

¹⁷This is my command: Love each other.

“…Do you understand what I was doing? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because that’s what I am. And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you.”

“…Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

¹⁰God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.

...fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you…”

¹⁹We love each other^[1] because he loved us first.