The Bible asks for love that does not wait to be deserved, and it begins with God’s own love, given before anyone loved him back. John writes “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19), and Paul says Christ died for people “while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8). Jesus applies the same pattern to enemies (Matthew 5:44) and to lending “without expecting to get anything back” (Luke 6:35), and Paul says love “keeps no record of wrongs”…
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