ACC ~ 1 Peter 4 v8

LOVE UNITES US TO GOD. CLEMENT OF ROME: Love unites us to God. Love hides a multitude of sins. Love puts up with everything and is always patient. There is nothing vulgar about love, nothing arrogant. … Without love, nothing can please God. LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 49.

LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR. AMBROSE OF MILAN: The one who sins does not love, for love covers a multitude of sins. Love cuts out the desire to sin, and since it also casts out fear, it is obviously full of perfect faith. LETTERS TO PRIESTS 48.

LOVE CONQUERS SIN. LEO THE GREAT: Nothing is stronger against the wiles of the devil, dearly beloved, than the kindness, mercy and generosity of love, through which every sin is either avoided or conquered. SERMONS 74.5.

HOLD UNFAILING YOUR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. BEDE: There are many good works which alleviate sins, but Peter speaks especially of love, because it is by love that we forgive those who trespass against us, something which is righteous in the sight of God and in full agreement with the godliness which has been given to us. ON 1 PETER.

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