When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
If you look from my point of view, that's what Christians strive for - love from God.
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.
If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.