Правило 3. О любви к Богу и о том, какой ее признак

Chapter 1. According to the testimony of the Lord, the first and great commandment in the Law is to love God with all your heart, and the second is to love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:37-39): “Jesus said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind: this is the first and greatest commandment; the second is similar to it: love your neighbor as yourself.” Chapter 2. Not to keep the commandments of Christ means not to love God and His Christ; and the sign of love is keeping the commandments of Christ, enduring the sufferings of Christ, even to the point of death. (John 14:21, 24): “Whoever has My commandments and keeps them, he loves Me; He who does not love Me does not keep My words.” (John 15:10): “If you love Me, keep My commandments. The words that I speak to you, I do not speak from Myself; The Father abiding in Me." (Rom.8:35-36): “Who will separate us from the love of God: tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? as it is written (Ps. 43:23): “For Your sake they kill us every day; they count us as sheep doomed to the slaughter.” But in all these we overcome for the sake of our Beloved” and so on. You might be interested in: