But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Luke 6:35 NABRE Luke is writing about Jesus’ teaching.…
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whoever claims to abide in him ought to live [just] as he lived. 1 John 2:6 NABRE John writes to his community about love in this first letter. John says if you say you know God but do not keep his commandments, then you are a liar. But if you…
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This is the fourth week of our series we are calling, “I come to do your will.” We read these words on the lips of Jesus many times in the gospel passages, it is in the psalms and we see them in the letter to the Hebrews read today. Jesus…
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For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. John 3:17 NABRE John captures Jesus teaching with Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, about eternal life, made available by the cross and into which believers are…
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In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 1 John 4:9 In his first letter to the community he formed, John speaks of love. He calls us to love one another…
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