God is love (1 John 4:8) is a favorite Bible verse about love. 1 John 4:16b is a similar verse also containing the words God is love. You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. (James 2:19) This is a most unusual thing to say about the demons who do not question if God exists, having seen Him with their own eyes. Instead, this verse is saying that the demons understand that the three persons of the Trinity are in perfect unity, without difference of opinion, plan or authority. The unity between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is what makes the demons shudder, not the fact that God exists. The verse makes no sense if the demons shudder merely because they believe in God. Its Gods unity that makes them shudder. (The Unified oneness of God: bible.ca/trinity/trinity-oneness-unity.htm) John 13:34-35 (AMP) 34 I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. 35 By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. Ephesians 4:4-6 (AMP) 4 [There is] one body and one Spirit—just as there is also one hope [that belongs] to the calling you received— 5 [There is] one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of [us] all, Who is above all [Sovereign over all], pervading all and [living] in [us] all. True and Actual Love is not a matter of detachment. Love supremely and intimately attaches Soul to Soul, without effort, decision or condition. Love is Connection, an uninhibited joining and exchange that shakes our inclinations to detach from What we actually are. We only suffer when we attempt to control Love through expectation, validation seeking and hopes of tangible guarantees. There are no guarantees of circumstance and we cannot dictate the actions and preferences of another Soul in the name of Love – though we may try. Complications only seem to exist as we resist Love’s simplicity. Being in Love is the recognition of another Soul’s existence and inspires a reverence of their Individual Purposes, Experience and Desires. When we experience another Being honoring our totality, even those aspects we keep hidden from most, we gain the courage to embrace our Selves Soulfully. I Love You means: I See You. I recognize That You exist as I exist. Love is an unfettered, Freely flowing attachment That is both breathtaking and Life affirming – our Universal Pulse. As we witness Truth we cannot help but attach to It and meld with It because we are It, we are That which we call Love, truly and actually. We recognize What we are and experience Life as we attach by Heart in a wholly complete surrender to the natural joining of Soul with Soul. We are Unity without condition. Source: knowingsoul Compare these famous God is love Bible verses in several popular translations: 1 John 4:8 (New International Version) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (English Standard Version) Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (New Living Translation) But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (New King James Version) He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (King James Version) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (New American Standard Bible) The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:16b (New International Version) God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (English Standard Version) God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (New Living Translation) God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. (New King James Version) God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (King James Version) God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (New American Standard Bible) God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. The entire passage found in 1 John 4:7-21 speaks of Gods loving nature. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him]. 8 He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique [Son], into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God loved us so [very much], we also ought to love one another. 12 No man has at any time [yet] seen God. But if we love one another, God abides (lives and remains) in us and His love (that love which is essentially His) is brought to completion (to its full maturity, runs its full course, is perfected) in us! 13 By this we come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we abide (live and remain) in Him and He in us: because He has given (imparted) to us of His [Holy] Spirit. 14 And [besides] we ourselves have seen (have deliberately and steadfastly contemplated) and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son [as the] Savior of the world. 15 Anyone who confesses (acknowledges, owns) that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides (lives, makes His home) in him and he [abides, lives, makes his home] in God. 16 And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. 17 In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection]. 19 We love Him, because He first loved us. 20 If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother [in Christ], he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen. 21 And this command (charge, order, injunction) we have from Him: that he who loves God shall love his brother [believer] also. Be imitators of our triune God as dearly beloved children through Christ Jesus via His Holy Spirit! Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (Ephesians 4:13) Pulpit Commentary Verse 13. - Until we all come. This marks the duration of the office of the ministry. Some maintain that it implies that all these offices are to continue in the Church until the result specified is obtained (Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite Church): this is contradicted by Scripture and by experience, so far as apostles and prophets are concerned, for the gifts for these offices were not continued, and without the gifts the offices are impossible. The meaning is that, till the event specified, there is to be a provision in the Church of the offices that are needed, and the apostle, in using until, probably had in view the last office in his list - pastors and teachers. To the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God. Both genitives are governed by unity; already there is one faith (ver. 5), but we all, i.e. all who compose or are yet to compose the body of Christ, the totality of this body, have to be brought to this faith. As in ver. 5 faith is not equivalent to creed, or truth believed, but the act of believing; so here the consummation which the ministers of the Church are given to bring about is a state in which faith in the Son of God shall characterize all, and that, not a blind faith, but a faith associated with knowledge. Usually faith and knowledge are opposed to each other; but here faith has more the meaning of trust than of mere belief - trust based on knowledge, trust in the Son of God based on knowledge of his Person, his work, and his relation to them that receive him. To bring all the elect to this faith is the object of the ministry; when they are all brought to it, the body of Christ will be complete, and the functions of the Christian ministry will cease. Unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. The idea of organic completeness is more fully expressed by these two clauses; the consummation is the completeness of the whole body of Christ as such; but that involves the maturity of each individual who is a constituent part of that body; and the measure or sign of maturity, both for the individual and for the whole, is the stature of the fullness of Christ (comp. Romans 8:29, Whom he did foreknow, them he also foredained to be conformed to the image of his Son). The question has been put - Will this consummation be in this life or the next? The one seems to melt into the other; the idea of a complete Church and that of a new economy seem inseparable; as the coming of Christ will terminate the observance of the Lords Supper, so it will terminate the ministries ordained by Christ for the completion of his Church.
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