And the Lord helpeth them, and rescueth them:
He rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them, because they have taken refuge in him.
SELECTION 24
THE GREATNESS OF LOVE
I John iv
BELOVED, let us love one another: for love is of God
And every one that loveth is begotten of God and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Herein was the love of God manifested in us,
That God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
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 also ought to love one another.
No man hath beheld God at any time:
If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.
And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
I Corinthians xiii
IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love,
I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge;
And if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
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