Love one another

Notes of meeting on 17 February 2015

John 15 v 10 - 17
¹⁰ If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
¹¹ I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.
¹² This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.
¹³ No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.
¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
¹⁵ I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
¹⁶ You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name.
¹⁷ My command to you is to love one another.

Romans 15 v 7 - 13
⁷ Accept one another, then, for the sake of God's glory, as Christ accepted you.
⁸ I tell you that Christ's work was to serve the circumcised, fulfilling the truthfulness of God by carrying out the promises made to the fathers,
⁹ and his work was also for the gentiles, so that they should give glory to God for his faithful love; as scripture says: For this I shall praise you among the nations and sing praise to your name.
¹⁰ And in another place it says: Nations, rejoice, with his people,
¹¹ and in another place again: Praise the Lord, all nations, extol him, all peoples.
¹² And in Isaiah, it says: The root of Jesse will appear, he who rises up to rule the nations, and in him the nations will put their hope.
¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, so that in the power of the Holy Spirit you may be rich in hope.