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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

— Jesus Christ

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

— Pope Benedict XVI

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

— William Throsby Bridges

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

— Jonathan Carroll

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

— Brennan Manning

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

— Nikki Giovanni

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

— Rudyard Kipling

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

— Dolly Parton

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

— Joyce Meyer

If you look from my point of view, that's what Christians strive for - love from God.

— Amy Jackson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.

— Ellen G. White