Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Verse 11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (1.) Because he is so much exalted above us, and if he has loved those who were so inferior and so unworthy, we ought to love those who are on a level with us; (2.) because it is only in this way that we can show that we have his...
11 Beloved Now the Almighty accommodates to his own purpose what he has just taught us respecting the love of God; for he exhorts us by God’s example to brotherly love; as also Paul sets before us Christ, who offered himself to the Father a sacrifice of pleasant fragrance, that every one of us might labor to benefit his neighbors.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (9) An other reason by comparison: if God so loved us, shall not we his children love one another?