He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.9 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.10 In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.13 In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.14 And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.16 And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.17 In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.18 Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.19 Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.20 If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?21 And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.
Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, "who bore our sins in His own body on the tree," "who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth," but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him. Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer for His name's sake, let us glorify Him. For He has set us this example in Himself, and we have believed that such is the case.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.37 Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.38 Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.†39 And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch?40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.41 And why seest thou the mote in thy brother’s eye: but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?†42 Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother’s eye.
(Hom. in Ps. 61.) For according to the same measure with which each one of you metes, that is, in doing good works or sinning, will he receive reward or punishment.
(Hom. 9, in Hexameron.) In truth, self knowledge seems the most important of all. For not only the eye, looking at outward things, fails to exercise its sight upon itself, but our understanding also, though very quick in apprehending the sin of another, is slow to perceive its own defects.
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