A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another. The Guardian - Page 1971804Full view - About this book
| Marvyn Roy Harris - Religion - 1985 - 170 pages
...heart of Jesus' teachings, that his followers have love one for another (XIII:34). Did Jesus not say: By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another (XIII:35)? The following chapters, XIVXVI, contain the remainder of Jesus'... | |
| Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1805 - 544 pages
...and malign one another ? Do you not know, on the contrary, that they are to be known by mutual love ? By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if ye love one another. How often doth that beloved disciple press this, he drank deep of that well-spring... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 334 pages
...the same time promote his own private interest. Another observation I shall draw from the premise* is, That it makes a signal proof of the divinity of...men know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.5 I will not say, that what is a most shining proof of our religion, is not often a reproach... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 704 pages
...accepted state. The most eminent of these, by our Lord's express declaration, is brotherly love. " By this shall all " men know tha,t you are my disciples, if you love one " another." No words can be plainer; and the consequence is equally plain, however hard it may bear upon any professors,... | |
| Great Britain - 1810 - 634 pages
...plain, nature and the gospel have but one and the same original : When, therefore, I read, Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. By this shall all men know, that ye are m\j disciples, tjf ye love one another. Let us examine into the other parts of the gospel, and... | |
| John Mannock - 1815 - 352 pages
...neighbour, it is not fit to harbour in the breast of a christian, whose essential mark is charity : lit this . shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you love one another, John xiii. 35. It is a professed enemy to virtue and merit in others, and endeavours to lessen it by... | |
| Walter Blake Kirwan - Sermons, English - 1816 - 328 pages
...eminently the friend of all mankind, and who bequeathed to the world this glorious and immortal sentence, " By this shall all men know " that you are my disciples, if you love one another." A sentence, which I most heartily wish, had been written on the frontispiece of all Christian temples,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 352 pages
...others, two infallible notes to know the church." " My sheep," saith he, " hear my voice:" and again, " By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if ye love one another."— What shall we stand upon conjectural arguments from that which men say? We... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 296 pages
...This it is that inclines each individual to an intercourse with hia species, and models every one el These thoughts do naturally suggest the following...this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if ye love one another.' to that behaviour which best suits with the common well-being. Henoe that sympathy... | |
| Peace - 1821 - 388 pages
...dwelleth in God, and God in him.' Our Lord declares it to be a distinguishing mark of his followers ; ' By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if ye love one another.' Under the influence of this love, which is one of the strongest marks of being... | |
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