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Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

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it is the agape love described in the New<br />

Testament--the selfless, all-for-other love--that<br />

comprises the foundation <strong>of</strong> true, lasting marital<br />

love.<br />

Jesus manifested the highest form <strong>of</strong> this kind<br />

<strong>of</strong> love when, accepting both the guilt and the<br />

consequences for our sins, He went to the cross.<br />

"Having loved His own who were in the world, He<br />

loved them to the end" (John 13:1, NASB). He<br />

loved us in spite <strong>of</strong> the end to which our sins<br />

brought Him. This was and is the unconditional<br />

agape love <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ.<br />

Describing this love, Paul said: "Love suffers<br />

long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not<br />

parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave<br />

rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,<br />

thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but<br />

rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all<br />

things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love<br />

never fails" (1 Cor. 13:4-8).<br />

Commenting on this passage, Ed Wheat wrote:<br />

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