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Bible Question: Do
you think that most Christians today in America do not have
compassion for others?
Bible Answer:
I
believe this is a problem for many Christians as well as non-Christians.
Otherwise, God would not have said,
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This is the great and foremost commandment. "The
second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
AS YOURSELF.’" (NASB) Matt. 22:38-39 |
Encouraged To Love. The Holy Spirit
encourages all Christians to love each other, because we are
not perfect beings even though our sins are forgiven.
God has even had to tell us how to love each other through the
Ten Commandments.
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Ten
Commandments |
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You
shall have no other gods before Me. |
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You
shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of
what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in
the water under the earth. |
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You
shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain |
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Remember
the sabbath day, to keep it holy. |
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Honor
your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged
in the land which the LORD your God gives you. |
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You
shall not murder. |
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You
shall not commit adultery. |
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You
shall not steal. |
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You
shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. |
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You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall
not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant
or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything
that belongs to your neighbor. |
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(NASB)
Exodus 20:3-17 |
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Jesus and the apostles repeatedly called Christians
to love one another. That means Christians have not arrived
yet. Here is a list of them - of all the one anothers in the
New Testament that talk about love.
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Reference |
Love
One Anothers (NASB) |
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John
13:34 |
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
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John
15:12 |
This
is My commandment, that you love one another, just as
I have loved you. |
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John
15:17 |
This
I command you, that you love one another. |
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Rom.
13:8 |
Owe
nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who
loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. |
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1
Thess. 4:9 |
Now
as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone
to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God
to love one another . . . |
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1
Peter 1:22 |
Since
you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls
for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one
another from the heart . . . |
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1
John 3:11 |
For
this is the message which you have heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another . . . |
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1
John 3:23 |
And
this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of
His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He
commanded us. |
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1
John 4:7 |
Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone
who loves is born of God and knows God. |
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1
John 4:11 |
Beloved,
if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
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1
John 4:12 |
No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another,
God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. |
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2
John 1:5 |
And
now I ask you, lady, not as writing to you a new commandment,
but the one which we have had from the beginning, that
we love one another. |
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