The problem is love

Alias1234 said:

You want to love others because you love that idea of your self but jesus said, deny your self, seek the kingdom of god first. He said love others as your self, not like your self.

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Okay, so that's where I got confused. I read the passage wrong I suppose?
I know we're supposed to love everyone, no matter how annoying, hurtful,
malicious, rude or obnoxious they can be. Through knowledge and understanding, in time I think it's possible for people to do. To know where
their iniquities are coming from, satan.

It doesn't make it easier to be calm, when someone slanders you, or
talks behind your back. Or, a person that believes that you are inferior to them.

Forgiveness is essential and divine, and I have forgiven the people who've wronged me. Does it make it easier for me to be around some of these same people? Sorry to say it hasn't.

To Lion's point in the OP:

1 John 2:6
New International Version (NIV)
6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

A very good thread folks,love never fails.
1 Corinthians: 13. 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

We give in the hope of helping the truly needy,hope is the expectation of better things to come.

God Bless my Baptist friends.