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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and

gave Himself up for her.

- Ephesians 5:25 NASB

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and

gave Himself up for her.


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This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and

the church.


KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Speaking with Reference to the Church

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31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a

new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

32Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I

took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My

covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,”

declares the Lord.”

- Jeremiah 31:31-32 NASB

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6 “ ‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a

father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’

says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But

you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’ 7 “You are presenting

defiled food upon My altar. But you say, ‘How have we defiled You?’ In

that you say, ‘The table of the LORD is to be despised.’ 8 “But when

you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you present

the lame and sick, is it not evil? Why not offer it to your governor?

Would he be pleased with you?

- Malachi 1:6-8 NASB

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9 “But now will you not entreat God’s favor, that He may be gracious to

us? With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you

kindly?” says the LORD of hosts. 10 “Oh that there were one among

you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire

on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of hosts, “nor

will I accept an offering from you.

- Malachi 1:9-10 NASB

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And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven

from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

- Revelation 21:2 NASB

KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: The Church is the Bride of Christ

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The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say,

"Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes

take the water of life without cost.


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2 ‘I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you

cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call

themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;

3 and you have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake,

and have not grown weary. 4 ‘But I have this against you, that you

have left your first love.'

- Revelation 2:2-4 NASB

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11 God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

12so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to

the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.

17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in

Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus

was being magnified. 18 Many also of those who had believed kept

coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. 19 And many of

those who practiced magic brought their books together and began

burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of

them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So the word of the

Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.

- Acts 19:11-12; 17-20 NASB


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For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which

exists among you and your love for all the saints,



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Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do

the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove

your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.



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14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful

and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: 15 ‘I

know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you

were cold or hot. 16 ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot

nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

- Revelation 3:14-16 NASB

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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as

I have loved you, that you also love one another.

- John 13:34 NASB

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Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a

sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,

- 1 Peter 1:22 NASB

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34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the

Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 35 One of them, a

lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, 36 “Teacher, which is the

great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “ ‘YOU

SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND

WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ 38 “This is the

great and foremost commandment. 39 “The second is like it, ‘YOU

SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ 40 “On these two

commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

- Matthew 22:34-40 NASB

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Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or

do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in

you—unless indeed you fail the test?

- 2 Corinthians 13:5 NASB

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