Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 NABRE Peter is writing this letter to several communities who have become followers of Jesus. He is telling them that they must imitate Jesus. In so doing they will suffer…
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We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 NABRE John in his first letter provides detail calling us to love one another. Then he goes into a deeper meditation on what love is, where it originates and how it must be expressed. Love originates in God, because God…
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I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: Ephesians 4:1-3 NABRE …
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In my heart I treasure your promise, that I may not sin against you. Psalms 119:11 NABRE Psalm 119 is designed for personal reading or meditation, not to be proclaimed in public, particularly as it is a very long psalm. It is a psalm that helps the prayerful reader to…
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The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 1 John 3:16 NABRE The author of the First Letter of John is writing to a community he formed, possibly Gentiles who came to…
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