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The Christian message is a message of love and we keep the commandments because He first loved us.
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."
"And this is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another."
"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he first loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."
"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us."
"God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world."
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
"We love him, because he first loved us."
"If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also."
(From I John chapters 3 to 4)
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