For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees, and laws; then you will love and increase.
(Deut. 30:16)

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
(1 John 4:9)
Tradition tells us that the aged apostle John, in bidding farewell to his congregation, admonished them to love one another.

"But we want something new," they said. "Give us a new commandment."

John replied, "Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning...that we should love one another" (1 John 2:7; 3:11).

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