Law of Christ – Love
Galatians 6:2 — Bear one another’s burdens, and so
fulfill the law of Christ.
John 13:34-35 — A new commandment I give to you, that you
love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one
another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you
have love for one another.”
Matthew 22:36-40 — “Teacher, which is the great
commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love
the Lord your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And
the second is like it: ‘You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all
the Law and the Prophets.”
1 Corinthians 9:19-21 — For though I am free from all
men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win
the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win
Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law,
that I might win those who are under the law; to those
who are without law, as without law (not being without law
toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those
who are without law;
Romans 13:8-10 — Owe no one anything except to love one
another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the
commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not
murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false
witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any
other commandment, are all summed up in this saying,
namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love
does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the
fulfillment of the law.
Romans 14:12-21 — So then each of us shall give account
of himself to God. Therefore let us not judge one another
anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block
or a cause to fall in our brother’s way. I know and am convinced
by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of
itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him
it is unclean. Yet if your brother is grieved because of
your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not
destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. Therefore
do not let your good be spoken of as evil; for the kingdom of
God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and
joy in the Holy Spirit. For he who serves Christ in these things
is acceptable to God and approved by men. Therefore let
us pursue the things which make for peace and the things
by which one may edify another. Do not destroy the work of God
for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but
it is evil for the man who eats with offense. It is good
neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by
which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
1 Corinthians 8:7-13 — However, there is not in
everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the
idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and
their conscience, being weak, is defiled. But food does not
commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor
if we do not eat are we the worse. But beware lest somehow this
liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s
temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened
to eat those things offered to idols? And because of your
knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak
conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my
brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my
brother stumble.
2 Corinthians 5:14 — For the love of Christ compels us,
because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
See: Love Others
