God’s love

God’s Love

 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

  • John 3:16

 

He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

  • Deuteronomy 7:13

 

The Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.

  • Psalm 146:8

 

As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

  • Isaiah 62:5

 

The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

  • Jeremiah 31:3

 

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

 

“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

  • Zephaniah 3:17

 

“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.”

  • Hosea 14:4

 

The Lord detests the way of the wicked, but he loves those who pursue righteousness.

  • Proverbs 15:9

 

I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.

  • Jeremiah 32:41

 

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  • Ephesians 2:4-7

 

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  • 1 John 4:10

 

No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • John 16:27

 

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

  • 1 John 4:16

 

We love because he first loved us.

  • 1 John 4:19

 

“I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

  • John 17:26

 

I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

  • John 17:23