Show your love by works

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Do you show your love by your works? While you have time, as you have opportunity, do you in fact do good to all men (Galatians 6:10) — neighbors or strangers, friends or enemies, good or bad? Do you do them all the good you can, endeavoring to supply all their wants, assisting them both in body and soul to the uttermost of your power? If you are thus minded, may every Christian say — yea, if you are but sincerely desirous of it, and following on till you attain — then your heart is right, as my heart is with your heart.

1771 text

18. Do you shew your love by your works? While you have time, as you have opportunity, do you in fact do good to all men, neighbours or strangers, friends, or enemies, good or bad? Do you do them all the good you can? Endeavouring to supply all their wants, assisting them both in body and soul, to the uttermost of your power? If thou art thus minded, may every Christian say, yea, if thou art but sincerely desirous of it, and following on till thou attain, then thy heart is right, as my heart is with thy heart.

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On 2 Kings 10:15, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?”: love toward Christians who differ in opinion and in ways of worship.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

Reference

Sermon 39 in the 1771 Works. 2 Kings 10:15.

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