Love

Jesus commands his disciples to remain inside the love the Father has always had for him — and the command reveals they can functionally leave it.

A psalm with a refrain repeated twenty-six times. Not decoration. The repetition is the theology.

Paul lists ten forces, then adds 'anything else in all creation.' The list is exhaustive on purpose — and every item is load-bearing.

John does not define love as sentiment. He defines it by a single historical act — and then insists that act is the source of every other love we claim.

Jesus reduces the entire law to two sentences. Not as a simplification. As a structural claim about what holds scripture together.

Jesus calls it 'new' on the night of his arrest. What was new about it? And what have we done with the answer?

Read at every wedding. Written to a church fracturing over status and spiritual pride. The context is not a ceremony. It is a crisis.