Gods love as a model for Christian behaviour

• Exodus 34:6-7

  ”the lord, the lord,

  a god merciful and gracious,

  slow to anger,

  and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

  keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,

  forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,

  yet by no means clearing the guilty,

  but visiting the iniquity of the parents

  upon the children

  and the children’s children

  to the third and fourth generation“
• 1 John 4:19-21

  ”we love because he first loved us. those who say “I love god“ and hate their brothers and sisters are liars, for those who go do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love a god whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love god must also love their brothers and sisters also“