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Louis Segond 1910
Car l'amour de Dieu consiste à garder ses commandements. Et ses commandements ne sont pas pénibles,
KJV
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
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1Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ith pleasure and promptitude, is difficult to a man who is not righteous. Accordingly we read also ( 1 Jn. 5:3 ) that "His commandments are not heavy": which words Augustine expounds by saying that "they are not heavy to the man that loveth; whereas they are a burden to him that…
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