[u][b]Hosea 6:6[/b][/u]
[i]For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. [/i]
[u][b]1 John 4:20-21[/b][/u]
[u][b]Obedience by Faith[/b][/u]
[i]If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.[/i]
[u][b]1 John 5:1-5[/b][/u]
[i]Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?[/i]
[u][b]Matthew 22:34-40[/b][/u]
[u][b]The Scribes: Which Is the First Commandment of All?[/b][/u]
[i]But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”[/i]
I choose the mercy freely given but bought with the blood of Jesus.
