Love is of God. Therefore it is of the deepest moment that it should ever be genuine and incorrupt, for the higher its source, nature and character, the more dangerous where that which is spurious usurps its place and name, misleading others and oneself under a fair but false pretension. Love is the activity of the divine nature in goodness, and hence it is inseparable from that nature as reproduced in the children of God. Nevertheless, this does not absolve them from the need of self-judgment that it be sincere and undefiled, seeking others' good according to God's will unselfishly. The letting in of hopes, fears or objects of our own falsifies it.
Where love is real, there is and must be the detestation of evil, no less decidedly than the close attachment to good. If the latter attracts, the former offends and is often ill received in the world. [8]