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Jesus commended the man who understood love of God and neighbor as being far more important than burnt offerings and sacrifices. He told him he was "not far from the Kingdom of God." In other words, he had come very close to the secret of life.
The greatest of all love poems, Chapter thirteen of First Corinthians, says much the same thing i.e. "If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing." (verse 3)
Jesus commended the man who understood love of God and neighbor as being far more important than burnt offerings and sacrifices. He told him he was "not far from the Kingdom of God." In other words, he had come very close to the secret of life.
The greatest of all love poems, Chapter thirteen of First Corinthians, says much the same thing i.e. "If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing." (verse 3)