Ephesians 2 v 1-10:
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to
live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of
the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us
also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature
and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects
of wrath. 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. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God– not by works, so that no one can boast. For
we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do.
Jeremiah 31 v 3:
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an
everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
Zephaniah 3 v 17:
The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight
in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
John 3 v 16:
"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 16 v 27:
(Jesus said,) "No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and
have believed that I came from God."
Ephesians 1 v 3-6:
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in
the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in
him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In
love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in
accordance with his pleasure and will– to the praise of his glorious grace,
which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
Ephesians 3 v 16-19:
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through
his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have
power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and
deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that
you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
1 John 3 v 1:
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called
children of God! And that is what we are!
1 John 4 v 8-19:
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God
showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we
might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved
us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since
God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God;
but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior
of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in
him and he in God. 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. In this way, love is
made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment,
because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect
love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears
is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us.
Romans 5 v 8:
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
Romans 8 v 31-39:
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be
against us? He 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? Who will bring
any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who 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. Who shall separate
us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine
or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death
all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced
that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor
the future, nor any powers, neither 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.
Deuteronomy 33 v 12:
"Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day
long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders."
Psalm 42 v 8:
By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-a prayer to the
God of my life.
Psalm 63 v 3:
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
Psalm 89 v 1-2:
I will sing of the LORD's great love forever; with my mouth I will make your
faithfulness known through all generations. I will declare that your love stands
firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.
Psalm 103 v 13 & 17:
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those
who fear him; But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those
who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children.
Psalm 108 v 4:
For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to
the skies.
Isaiah 38 v 17:
Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept
me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 43 v 4:
Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will
give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life.
Isaiah 54 v 10:
"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love
for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD,
who has compassion on you.
Jeremiah 31 v 3:
"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with
loving-kindness.
Lamentations 3 v 22-23:
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never
fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
John 14 v 21-23:
Whoever 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."
Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show
yourself to us and not to the world?" Jesus 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."
John 17 v 23-26:
(Jesus speaking to the Father prayed:) "May they be brought to complete unity to
let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved
me. "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see
my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation
of the world. "Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you,
and they know that you have sent me. 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."
Ephesians 2 v 4-5:
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.
Ephesians 5 v 1-2:
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of
love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering
and sacrifice to God.
2 Thessalonians 2 v 16-17:
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.
Titus 3 v 3-7:
At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds
of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating
one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved
us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He
saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he
poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having
been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal
life.
Hebrews 12 v 1-7:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us
throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let
us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on
Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him
endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the
throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that
you will not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have
not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten
that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not make
light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts
as a son." Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what
son is not disciplined by his father?
Titus 3 v 3-7:
At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds
of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating
one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved
us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He
saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he
poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having
been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal
life.
