If you refuse to love, you must remain dead.
To hate your brother is to be a murderer.
Harder done than said.
We can’t always recognise who is our brother.

He gave up his life for us.
We too ought to give up our lives for our brothers.
But I hope you won’t think of me any the less.
If I say I haven’t given up my life for others.

The injunctions so obviously true.
So worthy of praise .
So hard to do .
In this moral maze .

But what harm in reading it .
Even if you can’t do it.

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I read the bible
I nod wisely at these words
And then do not much

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See 1 John 3: 11-21