In addition to the requirement to love our enemies, we are required to let our "bowels also be full of charity towards all men" (Doctrine and Covenants 121:45). As noted last week and the week before, having love or charity for another means that we genuinely seek for their own good, in the same sense that we wish for our own good. "Christian love (charity) is not an impulse from the feelings, it does not run with the natural inclinations, nor does it spend itself only upon those for whom some affinity is discovered" (Greek scholar W.E. Vine). While it is preferable that we like or have affection for one another, our love or charity for others is not to be conditioned upon such affection.

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