Eph. 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
God is Love.
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
and - Scripture teaches that if we don't have His love we don't know God.
1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Love gives at it's own expense. It's counterfeit, Lust, takes at the expense of others. God gave at great expense to extend His loving kindness to you and me.
Joh 3:16-Amp For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only-begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish - come to destruction, be lost - but have eternal (everlasting) life. [Isa 9:6; 1Jn 2:12]
The undeserved, limitless love that God has given to us demands that we love others, even when they are our enemies, that we pray for them and intercede in their behalf. Love constrains us and causes us to be what we would not, nor could not, be without this grace of God.
We are the joints that supply and love is that measure of the Spirit that we are to supply.
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