All others without respect of persons…
Rom_2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Eph_6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
1Pe 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1Pe 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
1Pe 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1Pe 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
1Pe 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
We are told to … PURIFY our souls IN obeying the TRUTH through the SPIRIT unto unfeigned love of the brethren.
UNFEIGNED LOVE of others!
We have to LOVE ONE ANOTHER with a PURE HEART FERVENTLY.
We can ONLY do this THROUGH the SPIRIT.
Stop thinking you have to manufacture some kind of love for others on your own. Any love you can muster up on your own towards others is contaminated by self-serving in some way because we are self-serving creatures caught up in Satan's snare of self-serving. Our love for others MUST come from THE SPIRIT! The HOLY SPIRIT. GOD- THE HOLY SPIRIT. Through the HOLY SPIRIT'S love we can love others! God is love, and God alone can love perfectly. God in us can love others with unfeigned love, without any respect of persons. The Holy Spirit sees past all the outer sin layers bogging us down, and right into the heart of us, the human being created by GOD for GOD, the human being that can love only because that human being was FIRST loved by God!
1Jn_4:19 We love him, because he first loved us
We choose GOD, and in choosing GOD we are choosing to allow HIM through God the Holy Spirit to live and work in us as He wills! ALL GLORY TO GOD! ALL, yes, ALL glory to GOD alone!
We fail, but God does not! God is working in us as we choose to let Him work in us daily! We fail, HE FORGIVES through HIS LOVE! All glory to God always!
Let us receive each other, as HE receives us, through the Holy Spirit in us allowing us to love, as He loves!
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"How to Receive One Another. Finally, "Receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God." Whom does Christ receive? "This man receiveth sinners." How many will he receive? "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
How will he receive them? "All day long have I stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." And if they come, what assurance have they? "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." Let us learn of him; and remember that, wherever you may open the Scriptures, they are they which testify of him."
Articles on Romans by E. J. Waggoner Chapter 15 Excerpt
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