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"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." (John 13:38) As Christians, most of us know that we are repeatedly commanded to love. But, it can be hard to love everyone and we can even struggle with tolerance at times. And, when we do love, we naturally love our spouse and children in a far deeper and more selfless way than we would someone we don't like or who doesn't like us. After all, we're not God. We can't be expected to love our obnoxious neighbor the same way we do our beautiful wife, can we? In John 21:15-17, Jesus asks Peter (Simon) three times if he loves Him. The three times is