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Commenting on First John, Martin Luther made this eloquent and true statement: "This is an outstanding Epistle. It can buoy up afflicted hearts. Furthermore, it has John's style and manner of expression, so beautifully and gently does it picture Christ to us." Modern critical studies have often presented the Gospel and Epistles of John as the capstone of the development of theological and...

Obviously 1 John 4:7–12 is a classic text dealing with a central Christian teaching and concern. No Christian teacher has spoken more directly and eloquently about the origin and meaning of love, not even Paul in 1 Corinthians 13. Here the theological indicative grounds the moral imperative. Because God loves, we ought to love, not only God, but also one another. Of course, the person whom God loves will reciprocate that love. That goes without saying. The perfecting of love in us (v. 12) cannot
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