Love Your Neighbor#4 - Submit and Serve Others, Being Gracious

Loving your neighbor as yourself means:

I will submit myself to my neighbor by humbly serving them and doing good to them, being gracious, and always hospitable.

Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ. (Eph 5:21 GNB)

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Gal 5:13-14 ESV)

So Jesus told them: Foreign kings order their people around, and powerful rulers call themselves everyone's friends. But don't be like them. The most important one of you should be like the least important, and your leader should be like a servant. Who do people think is the greatest, a person who is served or one who serves? Isn't it the one who is served? But I have been with you as a servant. (Luk 22:25-27 CEV)

In the same way you younger people must submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you must put on the apron of humility, to serve one another; for the scripture says, "God resists the proud, but shows favor to the humble." (1Pe 5:5 GNB)

If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored. (Mat 23:12 CEV)

We should think about others and not about ourselves. (1Co 10:24 CEV)

And look out for one another's interests, not just for your own. (Phi 2:4 GNB)

We must also consider how to encourage each other to show love and to do good things.
(Heb 10:24 GW)

"Therefore, whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets." (Mat 7:12 ISV)

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"--when you have it with you. (Pro 3:27-28 ESV)

Keep on giving to everyone who asks you for something, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not insist on getting it back. Whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them. (Luk 6:30-31 ISV)

But as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you--see that you excel in this act of grace also. I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. (2Co 8:7-9 ESV)

Show hospitality to one another without complaining. As good managers of God's grace in its various forms, serve one another with the gift each of you has received. (1Pe 4:9-10 ISV)

Our love for our neighbor isn't genuine if we don't serve them, helping them with any problem or need they might have so that they can excel and be prosperous in their life. We have to stop complaining about others and the work that we have to do for them. We cannot be selfish with what Jesus has given us! We have to work together to build up our city.