Christian Poetry: Love and Duty

John 15:11-14 KJV   ¹¹These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹²This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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Love and Duty

(public domain poem edited by Angela Clark)

   Stern Duty took her iron pen

and wrote her strict decrees in blood.

Obey my laws you Son of Men

for I alone am good.

 

Despise the pleasant things on earth

And pass affection quickly by

For human joys are little worth

And fleshly love will go bye

 

A voice answered from above

The way is long, the light is dim

But woe to those proud souls that love

Their duty more than HIM

 

Who by his own example showed

A life of love without a flaw

Duty may preach a perfect code

But love fulfills the law

 

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John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

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  John 3:5-6  ⁵Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷