Holy Week-- Day 5

Read, Thursday of the Commandment on pages 13-14 of  John Piper's, Love to the Uttermost: Devotional readings for holy week. This ebook can be downloaded for free here.                                                   Read John 13:34 

Pastor Piper explains the meaning of the title Maundy Thursday, "The name comes from the Latin mandatum, the first word in the Latin rendering of John 13:34, 'A new commandment (mandatum nouvm) I give to you, that you love one another.'"

 

What additional insights do you observe from the following New Testament mandatum nouvm to "love one another"?

 

Romans 13:8  Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Galatians 5:13  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Ephesians 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Peter 1:22  Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

1 John 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

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