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“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
Mutual care is treated as an active responsibility: another person’s difficulty becomes something the community helps carry rather than merely observes.
Source note: Galatians 6:2 in the King James Version, in a passage about restoring and supporting one another.
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“Charity suffereth long, and is kind.”
Love is defined partly through patience and kindness, shifting the idea from emotion alone toward repeated behavior under strain.
Source note: 1 Corinthians 13:4 in the King James Version; this is the opening clause of the verse.
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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
Ruskin presents affection toward children as relational rather than one-way: care given to a child can be met with trust, warmth and generosity in return.
Source note: The Crown of Wild Olive, Lecture I, “Work,” Project Gutenberg #26716, printed page 41. Ruskin places the sentence inside a Victorian Christian discussion of what he calls the loving and generous character of “right childhood”; this collection preserves that historical moral framework rather than treating every surrounding prescription as modern child-development evidence.
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“Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.”
Friendship and community require emotional presence in both directions, sharing another person’s joy as well as sorrow.
Source note: Romans 12:15 in the King James Version.
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“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
Love is measured by conduct rather than verbal display, making practical help and truthful action more important than affectionate claims alone.
Source note: 1 John 3:18 in the King James Version, following a contrast between having resources and closing oneself to another person’s need.
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“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
Mutual regard includes both affection and deliberate respect, emphasizing how people treat one another rather than only what they feel privately.
Source note: Romans 12:10 in the King James Version, in a sequence of instructions about sincere love, generosity, patience, and shared responsibility.