Luke 6:37-45

5 th. Love, the principle of all beneficent moral action on the world: Luke 6:37-45.

The disciples of Jesus are not only called to practise what is good themselves; they are charged to make it prevail in the earth. They are, as Jesus says in Matthew, immediately after the beatitudes, the light of the world, the salt of the earth. Now they can only exercise this salutary influence through love, which manifests itself in this sphere also (comp. Luke 6:27), either by what it refrains from (Luke 6:37-42), or by action (Luke 6:43-45). Above all things, love refrains from judging.