Reasons for Loving One Another

It is easy for a person to say, I love God, but to prove it is not easy. You may try to prove your love for God by being active in religious activities, but being religious without love is hypocrisy. Jesus demands proof of our love for Him. Jesus said:

"If ye love me, keep my commandments."
(John 14:15)

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God."
(1 John 4:7)

Love is ___________________. *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
(1 John 4:7)

Love is authored by ___________. *

The author of confusion is _____________ *

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
(1 Corinthians 14:33)

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
(James 3:14-16)

Who came to destroy lives? *

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
(John 10:10)

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
(1 Peter 5:8)

Who came to give life eternal and abundant? *

Jesus is the author of love because ________ love. *

We love him, because he first loved us.
(1 John 4:19)

Jesus is the author of love because _________ love. *

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 5:8)

Jesus is the author of love because _________love. *

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
(Mark 12:30-31)

Jesus is the author of love because ___________ love. *

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
(John 14:16)

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
(John 14:26)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
(Galatians 5:22-23)

God is ___________ *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)

Love is _____________. *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)

________ declares it. *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)

I ____________ it. *

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
(Hebrews 11:1)

It is _____________ in the lives of those who have relationship with God. *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
(John 13:35)

A person who does not love ___________. *

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:8)

A changed life is an evidence that God is love. God's love changes lives. *

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
(John 14:23-24)

If ye love me, keep my commandments.
(John 14:15)

Spiritual growth is the result of _______________ God's love. *

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
(1 John 4:10-12)

Ability to _______ others is a proof that a Christian is growing in love. *

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
(Colossians 3:13-14)

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
(Proverbs 10:12)

God's love is evident in the __________ of men who are in constant communion with God. *

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
(2 Corinthians 3:2)

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
(2 Corinthians 3:18)

Knowing God's love means ________ *

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
(Jude 1:21-23)

Failing to look diligently into God's love and grace results to ____________ *

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
(Hebrews 12:15)

Love is commanded by ______ *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)

The command to love your brothers and sisters in the Lord could hardly be obeyed without loving God first. *

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
(1 John 5:1-2)

To love the brethren __________________________. *

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
(1 John 5:2)

If a person does not love the brethren, he does not care about his actions and testimony. *

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
(Romans 13:10)

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
(Matthew 18:6)

To obey God, you must __________. *

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
(Matthew 6:33)

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
(Hosea 6:6)

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
(Hosea 4:6)

You will not know what is true love if you do not know God. *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)

Our duty is to ________. *

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
(Mark 12:30-31)

There is spiritual growth when you obey __________ *

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
(Hebrews 5:14)

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
(James 1:22)

In order to learn to be patient with the shortcomings of others, you need to _________. *

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(Hebrews 12:2)

___________ is the evidence of spiritual birth *

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)

When a person is convicted of sin and understands God's love, his heart changes from loving sin to hatred of it and loving God. *

We love him, because he first loved us.
(1 John 4:19)

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
(Ezekiel 36:26)

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
(Ezekiel 11:19)

When a person is changed from the inside, it will manifest outwardly in his words and actions. *

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
(Matthew 12:33-35)

Are you saved? *

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Ephesians 2:8-9)

Do you admit that you are a sinner? *

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Ephesians 2:8-9)

How can a person be saved according to the verse? *

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Ephesians 2:8-9)

Do you believe in Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior? *

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
(John 3:18)

Are you sure of your salvation? *

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
(John 6:47)

How do you know that you are saved? *

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
(1 John 5:13)

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
(Romans 8:16)

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
(Matthew 12:33-35)

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