And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, John 14:16 NABRE Jesus in this final teaching to his disciples introduces an important teaching, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Love and obedience go together and our love…
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But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity. James 3:17 NABRE James is speaking in his letter to the community about what makes a person wise. He describes failed wisdom as that wisdom that…
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Yet it was our pain that he bore, our sufferings he endured. We thought of him as stricken, struck down by God and afflicted, Isaiah 53:4 NABRE Isaiah fifty-three has been called a part of the suffering servant verses. At the time of this prophecy from Isaiah it was considered…
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Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. 1 John 4:7 NABRE John is providing an extended mediation on what love is, where it originates and how it is best to be expressed. John is the Apostle…
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For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, 1 John 3:11 NABRE John the author of three letters and likely the gospel of John is the love preacher. He takes Jesus’ message to love one another and emphasizes it in all his…
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