“Winim Evri Samting, Garem Barava Strongfala Love”

“End bilong evri samting hem kam klosap nao. . . . Winim evri samting, garem barava strongfala love for each other.”—1 PETER 4:7, 8.

JESUS savve hao olketa last hour wea hem stap witim olketa aposol hem barava important. Hem savve wanem bae kasem olketa. Olketa garem bigfala waka for duim, bat pipol bae heitim and persecutim olketa olsem olketa duim long hem. (John 15:18-20) Long datfala last naet wea olketa stap tugeta, planti taem hem remindim olketa abaotem need for “lovem each other.”—John 13:34, 35; 15:12, 13, 17.

² Aposol Peter, wea stap long datfala naet minim why nao samting Jesus talem hem important. Staka year bihaen, no longtaem bifor Jerusalem hem distroe, Peter raet and strongim why love hem important. Hem kaonselem olketa Christian olsem: “End bilong evri samting hem kam klosap nao. . . . Winim evri samting, garem barava strongfala love for each other.” (1 Peter 4:7, 8) Toktok bilong Peter barava important for pipol wea laef long taem bilong “olketa last day” bilong disfala world. (2 Timothy 3:1) Wanem nao “barava strongfala love” minim? Why nao hem important for iumi garem kaen love olsem for narawan? And hao nao iumi savve showimaot iumi garem diskaen love?

“Barava Strongfala Love”—Hem Wanem?

³ Staka tingse love hem feeling wea mas kamap seleva. Bat Peter no storyim enikaen love nomoa, hem storyim love wea winim evri narawan. Long 1 Peter 4:8 datfala word “love” hem transleison bilong Greek word a·gaʹpe. Disfala word minim love wea no selfish, wea followim principle. Olsem wanfala buk hem sei: “Man fit for showim agape love enitaem, from diskaen love hem no wanfala feeling nomoa bat hem samting wea man savve disaed for showimaot wea bae leadim hem for duim samting.” From iumi born witim feeling for selfish, iumi needim olketa samting for remindim iumi for showim love long each other long wei wea followim olketa principle bilong God.—Genesis 8:21; Romans 5:12.

⁴ Diswan no minim iumi lovem each other bikos hem samting wea iumi mas duim. A·gaʹpe hem no minim iumi no garem feeling. Peter sei iumi mas “garem barava strongfala [wea minim, “for mekem moa big”] love for each other.”a (Kingdom Interlinear) Nomata olsem, man mas waka hard for garem diskaen love. Saed long datfala Greek word wea olketa transleitim olsem “barava strongfala,” wanfala savveman sei: “Hem mekem man for tingim wanfala sportsman taem hem iusim lalas strong bilong olketa masol for kasem end bilong wanfala resis.”

⁵ So, wei wea iumi showimaot love hem mas no long wei wea fitim iumiseleva, or for samfala pipol nomoa. Christian love minim iumi mas “mekem moa big” heart bilong iumi, for showimaot love nomata long taem wea datwan maet hard. (2 Corinthians 6:11-13) Hem klia, diskaen love hem samting iumi need for mekem grow and waka hard for garem, olsem sportsman mas training and waka hard for kamap moabeta. Hem important tumas for iumi garem kaen love olsem for each other. Why nao olsem? For thrifala reason.

⁷ Mek-tu reason, hem barava important for iumi barava lovem each other distaem mekem iumi savve helpem olketa brata bilong iumi wea garem need bikos “end bilong evri samting hem kam klosap.” (1 Peter 4:7) Iumi stap long “nogud taem wea hard for deal witim.” (2 Timothy 3:1) Living bilong world, olketa natural disaster, and wei for againstim iumi mekem iumi kasem olketa hard taem. Long olketa hard taem olsem, iumi need for kam moa klos long each other. Barava strongfala love bae mekem iumi garem wan mind wea strong and muvim iumi for “kea for narawan.”—1 Corinthians 12:25, 26.

⁸ Mek-thri, iumi need for lovem each other bikos iumi no laek “givim eni chance long Devil” for spoelem iumi. (Ephesians 4:27) Satan kwiktaem for iusim wei wea olketa brata bilong iumi no perfect—olketa wik point, rong samting and mistek bilong olketa—olsem olketa samting for mekem iumi foldaon. Waswe, bae toktok wea no tingim feeling bilong man or wei wea brata no showimaot kaenfala fasin mekem iumi lusim kongregeson? (Proverbs 12:18) Bae iumi no duim olsem sapos iumi garem strongfala love for each other! Diskaen love helpem iumi for keepim peace and for servem God “tugeta witim wan mind.”—Zephaniah 3:9.

¹³ Love muvim iumi for no tingim mistek bilong nara pipol. Tingim hao taem Peter kaonselem olketa wea readim leta bilong hem for “garem barava strongfala love for each other,” hem talem reason why diswan important: “Bikos love kavarem planti sin.” (1 Peter 4:8) For “kavarem” olketa sin hem no minim wei for “haedem” olketa big sin. Hem stret for iumi reportim olketa big sin long olketa wea garem responsibility insaed kongregeson for deal witim datwan. (Leviticus 5:1; Proverbs 29:24) Hem no showimaot love—and no followim Bible—for letem pipol wea duim nogud sin for gohed spoelem pipol wea no duim eniting rong.—1 Corinthians 5:9-13.

¹⁴ Staka taem, olketa mistek and rong bilong olketa brata hem smol nomoa. Iumi evriwan savve tok rong or duim rong samting samfala taem, wea mekem narawan feel nogud and sorre tu. (James 3:2) Waswe, iumi shud kwiktaem storyim long nara pipol olketa wik point bilong narawan? For duim olsem bae kosim wei for raoa nomoa midolwan olketa brata long kongregeson. (Ephesians 4:1-3) Sapos iumi followim wei bilong love, iumi bae no “talemaot rong” bilong brata bilong iumi. (Psalm 50:20) Olsem wei wea paint kavarem olketa ples long wall wea no luk gud, love kavarem rong samting wea narawan duim.—Proverbs 17:9.