<p>12:10 <i>Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honour to others</i>- &quot;Love&quot; is claimed by everyone; :9 has challenged us to love unfeigned, unpretended and genuine. That love or <i>agape</i> is the love of Christ, loving as He loved us- for in that is the 'newness' of the command to love one another &quot;as I have loved you&quot; (Jn. 13:34). That <i>agape</i> love will issue in a brotherly love for each other and respect / honour to others on account of their place in the body of Christ. If we seek to love our Christian brethren on the basis of their behaviour, we will find it impossible to love many or that deeply. We have to respect them for their status in Christ; and writing Romans from Corinth, Paul had gone very far in doing that. For he loved the Corinthians, so weak in understanding and behaviour, with the love of Christ- in that he respected their status as in Him. Paul uses the same Greek word for &quot;honour&quot; in reflecting that the Corinthians, and all believers, had been bought with a &quot;price&quot;- the blood of the Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 7:23). All who have been bought with that are to be honoured- for they are of great price.</p>