One (2/4)

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes… 1 John 4:7

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7	Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. love neighbor friendship
But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Matthew 24:13	But he who endures to the end will be saved. patience salvation end times

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 1 John 4:11	Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. love God community
In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents. Luke 15:10	Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting. joy angels repentance
So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11	Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. encouragement learning neighbor
But ‘God made them male and female’ from the beginning of creation. ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together. Mark 10:6-9	But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. marriage body sexuality
Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25	Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. second coming community encouragement
I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown. Revelation 3:11	I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown. second coming reward patience
For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy. Hebrews 10:14	For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. sacrifice holiness purification
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13	Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. love sacrifice friendship
But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. 2 Thessalonians 3:3	But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. reliability safety strength
Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude. 1 Peter 3:8	Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous. humility community neighbor
But you, O Lord, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high. Psalm 3:3	But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. dependence overcoming protection
Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2	Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. law suffering neighbor
This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. John 15:12	This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. law love Jesus
For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14	For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” law love neighbor
I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. John 17:15	I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. safety mediator evil
Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others. 1 Corinthians 10:24	Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good. selfishness love neighbor
God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor? James 4:12	Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? law judgment salvation
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16	Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. righteousness healing prayer
And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. Matthew 6:13	Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. temptation desires evil
But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:15	But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. sin grace Jesus
Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory. Romans 15:7	Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. Jesus worship neighbor
“Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.” Matthew 19:4-6	He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’? So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.” marriage sexuality creation
I didn’t know he was the one, but when God sent me to baptize with water, he told me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ John 1:33	I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’ Jesus Spirit baptism