1Joh4:8God is
love.
God's Love
for & in Us
Joh14:15“If
you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And
I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you
forever— 17the
Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor
knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18I
will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19Before
long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live,
you also will live. 20On
that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in
you. 21Whoever
has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will
be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” 22Then
Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show
yourself to us and not to the world?” 23Jesus
replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love
him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24He
who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my
own; they belong to the Father who sent me.” - words of Jesus
Joh15:9“As the
Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now
remain in my love. 10If
you obey my commands, you will remain in my love,
just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11I
have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be
complete. 12My
command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater
love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You
are my friends if you do what I command. 15I
no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's
business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from
my Father I have made known to you. 16You
did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear
fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in
my name. 17This
is my command: Love each other.” - words of Jesus
Jam1:12Blessed is the
man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will
receive the crown of life that God has promised to those
who love him. 13When
tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be
tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14but
each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and
enticed. 15Then,
after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is
full-grown, gives birth to death. 16Don't
be deceived, my dear brothers. 17Every
good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly
lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18He
chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of
firstfruits of all he created.
1Joh3:16This
is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we
ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17If
anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on
him, how can the love of God be in him? 18Dear
children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 19This
then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at
rest in his presence 20whenever
our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows
everything. 21Dear
friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22and
receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what
pleases him. 23And
this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to
love one another as he commanded us. 24Those
who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that
he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
1Joh5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
2Joh1:3Grace,
mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's Son,
will be with us in truth and love. 4It
has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just
as the Father commanded us. 5And
now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the
beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6And
this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from
the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
Rom8:28And we know
that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have
been called according to his purpose. 29For
those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And
those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those
he justified, he also glorified. 31What,
then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32He
who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not
also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who
will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who
justifies. 34Who
is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to
life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As
it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be
slaughtered.” (Psa44:22)
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1Cor2:9 ..... as it is
written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him”
(Isa64:4)
— 10but
God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
Eph5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Eph5:25Husbands,
love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26to
make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27and
to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any
other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In
this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who
loves his wife loves himself. 29After
all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as
Christ does the church— 30for
we are members of his body.
Eph6:23Peace to the
brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ. 24Grace
to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
Phi2:1If you have any
encouragement from being united with Christ, if any
comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the
Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then
make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same
love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do
nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others
better than yourselves. 4Each
of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of
others.
Col3:12Therefore, as
God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe
yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear
with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one
another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And
over all these virtues put on love, which binds
them all together in perfect unity.
1The1:3We continually
remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your
labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord
Jesus Christ. 3For we know, brothers
loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5because
our gospel came to you not simply with words, but
also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep
conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. 6You
became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you
welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. 7And
so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. 8The
Lord's message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith
in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything
about it, 9for
they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you
turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10and
to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who
rescues us from the coming wrath.
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