John 21:15

So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
American Standard Version

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

  1. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    An exhortation to love God cites John xxi. 15

    …k of his apostleship; see how Christ goes about to comfort him. “Peter, lovest thou me?” (John xxi. 15). As if Christ had said, “Though thou hast denied me through fear, yet if thou canst say …

  2. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites John 21:15

    …great Shepherd, is himself a Lamb, and believers are also lambs; all the flock are lambs: John 21:15, "Feed my lambs." Luke 10:3, "I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves. "The rede…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.2 Love cites John 21: 15

    …f the offering; it is the grace which Christ inquires most after. ‘Simon lovest thou me?’ John 21: 15. Love makes all our services acceptable, it is the musk that perfumes them. It is not so …

  4. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites John xxi. 15

    … not say he loved Christ more than the other apostles. “Lovest thou me more than these?” (John xxi. 15). He durst not say so, his fall broke the neck of his pride. The foiling by a temptation …

  5. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Reproof of such as sin against this merciful disposition in Christ. Of quenching the Spirit cites John xxi. 15

    …o requite so good a Saviour, who counteth the love and mercy shewed in feeding his lambs, John xxi. 15, as shewed to himself? Last of all, they carry themselves very unkindly ‘towards Christ, …

  6. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section I cites John xxi. 15-17

    …ngs. Let her show her love to her LORD by feeding His sheep, by caring for His lambs (see John xxi. 15-17), and she need not fear to miss His presence. While sharing with other under-shepherds in…

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