Bible Dictionary: Love to Man: The Love of God is a Motive To

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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Library

Love is the End of all the Commandments, and God Himself is Love.
... of which is, "It is good for a man not to touch a woman," [1328] are rightly carried
out only when the motive principle of action is the love of God, and the ...
/.../augustine/the enchiridion/chapter 121 love is the end.htm

Love, the Motive Power for Service.
... But no man can be a true worker for God, and a successful winner of souls ... eyes of
the world and have crowds flocking to hear him, but if love to God and to ...
/.../moody/to the work to the work/chapter ii love the motive.htm

What Proves God's Love
... reach of human affection might be that a man would die ... But God sends His Son, and
comes Himself in His Son ... That death reveals a love which is its own origin and ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/what proves gods love.htm

Love and Forgiveness
... 'God is love': therefore beneath all ... than all thoughts of a compassion that springs
from the feeling of human distress and the sight of man's misery"lies ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/love and forgiveness.htm

God's Imitators
... The only flame that kindles love in a man's heart, whether it be to God or to man,
is the recognition that he himself stands in the full sunshine of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/gods imitators.htm

How we are to Reduce all the Exercise of the virtues, and all Our ...
... and does not escape being an ambitious man; for he ... consequently the sovereign rank
to that of pleasing God. ... actions, which is that of heavenly love, has this ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xiii how we are.htm

God's Testimony Concerning Man
... God's testimony then concerning man is, that he does not love God with
all his heart; nay, that he does not love him at all. ...
/.../bonar/gods way of peace/chapter i gods testimony concerning.htm

Wesley -- God's Love to Fallen Man
... before the world began; as to take upon Him "the form of a servant, being found
in fashion as a man"! ... If God so loved us, how ought we to love one another ...
/.../kleiser/the worlds great sermons volume 3/wesley gods love to.htm

God's Love to Fallen Man
... form of a servant, being found in fashion as a man; and then ... unto death, even the
death of the cross!" If God SO loved us, how ought we to love one another ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 59 gods love to.htm

A Dialogue with God
... answered man's question; for Christ is at once the way back to God, and the motive
which draws us to walk in it. He draws us back by the magnetism of His love ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/a dialogue with god 3.htm