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Love
The commandment that God has given us is: “Love God and love each other!”
—Contemporary English Version
Regularly addressing his audience as “little children” and “beloved,” this writer’s tone is fatherly. And his prevailing message is one of Christly love and forgiveness.
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Resources cited in this issue
GT: Contemporary English Version, copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by American Bible Society. Used by permission; Hindson, Edward E., and Dan Mitchell. Zondervan King James Version Commentary: New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010.
Cit. 5: Radmacher, Earl D., Ronald Barclay Allen, and H. Wayne House. The NKJV Study Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007; Eiselen, Frederick Carl, Edwin Lewis, and David G. Downey, eds. The Abingdon Bible Commentary. New York: Abingdon Press, 1929.
Cit. 15: Barclay, William. The Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of Matthew, Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew, 1955. Revised and updated by Saint Andrew, 2001. Reprinted as The New Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of Matthew, Vol. 2. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2001–04.
Cit. 16: Abraham, A. Kenneth, ed. The Matthew Henry Study Bible: King James Version. Westlake, OH: World Bible Publishers, 1994.
Cit. 23: Attridge, Harold W., et al., eds. Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Romans. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1971–2013.
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