The Theologian John Gill suggests that faith and love are interdependant, as his description of 1 Thessalonians 5:8, in John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible, includes the following statement:
Faith may answer to the former, and love to the latter: these two graces go together, faith works by love, and love always accompanies faith; as there can be no true faith where there is no love, so there is no true love where faith is wanting.
We know that faith works by love because of what Galatians 5:6 says. But we also know that faith or trust is an aspect of love, because of what 1 Corinthians 13:7 says. I believe that all the components of love are interdependent: you cannot be kind to someone, for instance, unless you are longsuffering towards them; neither can you believe God for a miracle if you do not forgive a person, and therefore, are not longsuffering towards them.
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