Principles of agape love first defined in Leviticus

[Hizikyah]

That is so parallel and complementary to scriptures as a whole. Thank you brother for quoting those scriptures!!

Thank you for posting the awesome thread, may we praise Yah side by side!

I have remembered Your Name in the night, O יהוה, And I guard Your Instructions. This has become mine, Because I have observed Your orders. You are my portion, O יהוה; I have promised to guard Your words. I have sought Your face with all my heart; Show me favour according to Your word.

 

[AndTheWordWasGOD]

This one took me some time to learn. It's easy for me to be silent and avoid the conflict, but God requires us to rebuke our neighbor in love when they are in sin that they might have opportunity to reflect, repent and be restored.

Leviticus 19:17-18
(17) Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: you shall in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.
(18) Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:17-18 (World English Bible)
(17) “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
(18) “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

God's law is perfect converting the soul... O'Lord through your statutes I gain understanding...

Deu 4:7-8 For what nation is there so great, who has God so near unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? (8) And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

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Proverbs 9:8
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Ecclesiastes 7:5
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Luke 17:3-5
(3) Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
(4) If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
(5) The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

2Timothy 4:1-4
(1) I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
(2) preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
(3) For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
(4) and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

Titus 1:13-14
(13) This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
(14) not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Titus 2:15
(15) Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

Revelation 3:19
(19) As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

 

[Hizikyah]

Proverbs 10:17, "He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, but he who refuses reproof goes astray."



Proverbs 12:1, "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is brutish"


Proverbs 15:12, "A scorner has no love for one who would reprove him, so he will not go near the wise."


Proverbs 10:16, "The wages of the righteous is life; but the fruit of wickedness is sin and death."


Proverbs 27:5-6, "Open rebuke is better than concealed love. Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses from an enemy are deceitful."

 

[AndTheWordWasGOD]

Proverbs 10:17, "He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, but he who refuses reproof goes astray."



Proverbs 12:1, "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is brutish"


Proverbs 15:12, "A scorner has no love for one who would reprove him, so he will not go near the wise."


Proverbs 10:16, "The wages of the righteous is life; but the fruit of wickedness is sin and death."


Proverbs 27:5-6, "Open rebuke is better than concealed love. Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses from an enemy are deceitful."

Amen.

Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.
Jeremiah 10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

 

[Hizikyah]

Leviticus 19:16, "‘Do not go slandering among your people. Do not stand against the blood of your neighbour. I am יהוה."

Isaiah 43:26 , "Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence."

Luke 19:8 , And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”

Proverbs 25:8, “Do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?”

Matthew 5:11, “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.”

Romans 12:19, Beloved, do not revenge yourselves, but give place to the wrath, for it has been written, “Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay,” says יהוה.”

Deuteronomy 32:35, “Vengeance is Mine, and repayment, At the time their foot slips; For near is the day of their calamity, And the matters prepared are hastening to them.”

1 Peter 3:9, “Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.”

Psalm 109:2, “For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.”

Proverbs “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.”

Luke 6:27 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”

Proverbs 19:9, “A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.”

 

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Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the Lord.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. (Proverbs 10:18)

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. (Romans 12:19)

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. (1 Peter 3:9)

 

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Leviticus 19:17-18
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. (Galatians 6:1)

Ephesians 4:31-32
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Why do we insist that the law is nor longer valid? This thread was for the purpose of showing us how to love, not just say we do when we have little information about how to exact love the way God wants it exacted. Shame on us to say the law has been made void by the One who gave it in the first place.

 

[Hizikyah]

Leviticus 19:17-18
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Titus 1:9, "Holding fast the teaching according to the faithful word in order that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to refute those who contradict."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]2 Timothy 3:16, All Scripture is breathed out by Yah and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness.”[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 John/Yahanan 2:4, "He who says: I know Him, but does not keep His Law, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Proverbs 3:11, My son, do not despise the discipline of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif], And do not loathe His reproof; For whom [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]loves He reproves, As a father the son whom he delights in."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]2 Timothy 4:2-3, "Preach the word Be instant; ready to take your positions in season, out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers, who will tickle their ears."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Leviticus 19:17, "You shall not hate your neighbor in your heart. Rebuke your brother or your sister frankly, so you will not share in his or her guilt."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Proverbs 24:25-26, "But he who rebukes the wicked will be a delight, and a righteous blessing will be called upon him. A fitting; appropriate, answer is like a kiss on the lips."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Luke 17:3-4, "So be on your guard! If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him! But if he repents, forgive him! And if he trespasses against you seven times in one day, and seven times in that day turns to you, and says; I repent; then you must forgive him."[/FONT]

 

[Hizikyah]

Leviticus 19:17-18
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

Galatians 5:22-25, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, righteousness, Faith, Meekness, temperance, such things are not against any Law. And those who are the Messiah's have sacrificed the flesh, with its passions and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

1 John 4:20, “"If someone says, "I love Yah," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love Yah whom he has not seen."

Psalm 82:3-4, “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Proverbs 3:27-28, “Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor, "Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow" — when you now have it with you.”

Proverbs 14:20-21, “The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends. He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is kind to the needy.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7, “Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil, does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth, it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all.”