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Thread #160109 Message #3796149
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Jun-16 - 06:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: If You Don't Love Your Neighbor
Subject: Origins: If You Don't Love Your Neighbor
This song seems to be a bluegrass special favorite, but I don't know where it comes from. Anybody know who wrote it, and when?
Here are the lyrics that are in the Rise Up Singing Songbook. Please post other versions if you've got 'em.
IF YOU DON'T LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR (Carl Story ???)
There are many people who will say they are Christians And who live like Christians on the seventh day But from Monday morning til the coming Sunday They will fight their neighbor all along the way
CHORUS O you don't love God if you don't love your neighbor If you gossip about him, if you don't have mercy If he gets into trouble and you don't try to help him If you don't love your neighbor, then you don't love God
In the Holy Bible in the Book of Matthew Read the 18th chapter from the 21st verse Jesus plainly tells us that you must have mercy There's a special warning in the 35th verse
There's a God in heaven and you've but to love him If you want salvation and a Home on High If you say that you love him when you hate your neighbor Then you don't have religion, you just told a lie