1 Corinthians 16:22
If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!
BSB
ASV
If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
KJV
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ,.... The Vulgate Latin, and the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, read "our Lord".
Maran-atha-Anathema signifies a thing devoted to destruction. It seems to have been customary with the Jews of that age, when they had pronounced any man an Anathema, to add the Syriac expression, Maran-atha, that is, "The Lord cometh;" namely, to execute vengeance upon him.
If any man love not the Lord Jesus - This is directed immediately against the Jews. From 1Co 12:3, we find that the Jews, who pretended to be under the Spirit and teaching of God, called Jesus αναθεμα, or accursed; i.e. a person who should be devoted to destruction: see the note on 1Co 12:3. In this place the apostle retorts the whole upon themselves, and says: If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let Him be αναθεμα, accursed, and devoted to destruction.
Love to one another is to be in connection with love to Him above all. IGNATIUS [Epistle to the Romans, 7] writes of Christ, "My love, has been crucified" (compare So 2:7). Jesus Christ--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. let him be Anathema--accursed with that curse which the Jews who call Jesus "accursed" (1Co 12:3) are bringing righteously on their own heads [BENGEL].
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John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
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If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
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1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
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And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
