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TEVRAT, ZEBUR, İNCİL ve KUR'AN'DAN GÖZLEMLER |
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Negative Love, Positive Love, Love of Christ
NEGATIVE LOVE
Love of the World and Love of Money
« Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.» (1 John 15-17)
Love of Money
« No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.» (Matthew 6/24)
Love of money deviates a man from the true path. « No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. »(1 Timothy 6/10)
POSITIVE LOVE
Love for one's Neighbor, Love of one's Kind, Love of one's enemy, Love of Spouse, Love of Parents, Love of Children
Love for one's Neighbor
…Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (Matthew 19/19). Love is tantamount to the application of the Law.
« Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.» (Romans 13/10)
Love one another
« A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. »(1 John 13/14)
« Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 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, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? »(1 John 4(/7,20)
Love your Enemy
« Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;»(Matthew 5/43,44)
Because God's compassion embraces also the evil ones. « But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.» (Luke 6/35)
Love for Spouse
« So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.»(Ephesians 5/28) Spouses form one single body. Man shall love his wife and woman shall respect her husband.« For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.» (Ephesians 5/31)
« Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband». (Ephesians 5/33)
Love for one's Parents and Love for Children
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10/37)
Love for one's parents and for one's children cannot be denied, but this love should not be superior to the love of Christ. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 19/19)
LOVE OF CHRIST
« He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him».(John 14/21)
« Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?»(Romans 8/35)
« Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.»(1 Peter 8,9)
LOVE FOR HUMAN BEINGS IN THE QUR'AN