2 March 2025
Your brother does not cease to be your brother because he slips or
offends you; that is when he has most need of your love. Loving your neighbor
as yourself means that you should not obey the sinful nature, which, when it is
offended, hates and bites and devours. Rather, you should wrestle against it by
the Spirit and continue loving your neighbor, although you find nothing worthy
of love in him. Our righteousness is much more abundant than our sin, because
the holiness and righteousness of Christ our Mediator far exceeds the sin of
the whole world, and the forgiveness of sins that we have through him is so
great that it easily swallows up all our sins, so long as we live by the
Spirit.
Martin Luther
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