What is your motive?
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Love vs. Selfishness
"Giving to others' basic needs without having as my motive personal reward" *(IBLP)
1 Corinthians 13:3
“If I give away all I have…but have not love, I gain nothing.” RSV
Romans 12:9
“Let love be without dissimulation.” KJV
Greek definition for “dissimulation”: Pretending to act from one motive, whereas another motive really inspires the act
Consider other translations from the Bible
Romans 12:9
“Let love be genuine” RSV
Romans 12:9
“Let love be without hypocrisy.” NKJV
Romans 12:9
“[Let your] love be sincere (a real thing)” AMP
Right motives = true gain
Consider the following verse
Luke 12:15
"And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man's life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs." AMP
*Used with permission from the Institute in Basic Life Principles.