Sound doctrine is necessary.
Love, true love, cannot exist without.  
Loving untruth is idolatry or sentimentality.

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To love rightly
which glorifies God brightly
Truth must be held uprightly 

Sound doctrine grounds love
Like a fitted glove
Highlighting God above

Love does not exist
Where truth does not persist 
Where verity misses the list

“Love” without truth
Is sentimentality’s youth
Idolatry’s sweet tooth

Fiction, not fact
Depth it does lack
Substance a mere artifact 

Love in truth, though
Never ceases to grow
With the more you know 

Sound doctrine grounds all
Letting love flourish tall
In authenticity’s grand hall

Love without veracity 
Deceives with dishonesty 
Lacking integrity’s capacity 

Truth is necessary 
To guard against arbitrary 
To produce the extraordinary 

To love truly 
And worship duly
Seize truth surely

To love rightly
which glorifies God brightly
Truth must be held uprightly 
Seized fiercely and tightly

Sound doctrine informs
True love’s norms
Protecting through life’s storms

Truth, not fiction
Comforts in affliction 
And protects from dereliction 

Truth must be guarded 
Never discarded
Reverently regarded 

Defend and protect
Cherish and respect
Truth’s every aspect

To sound doctrine cling
Letting it resoundingly ring
Leading you to Truth’s King

Authenticity’s worship depends
Not on cultural trends
But on Heaven’s high ends

Do not fall prey
To error’s say
Or idolatries sway

Make diligent defense 
To erect truth’s protective fence
Defending with vigilance intense

Love truth always
Leading you to raise
Pure Godward praise.

To love rightly
which glorifies God brightly
Truth must be held uprightly 
Seized fiercely and tightly
With joy, expressed sprightly