god loves me
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16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
10Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.
16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.
35Then who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation? Or anguish? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or peril? Or persecution? Or the sword? 36For it is as it has been written: “For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter.” 37But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us. 38For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, 39nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
3The Lord appeared to me from a distance: “And I have loved you in perpetual charity. Therefore, showing pity, I have drawn you.
19Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.
17The Lord your God is the strength in your midst; he will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness. In his love, he will be silent. He will exult over you with praise.
17so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity. 18So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth 19of the charity of Christ, and even be able to know that which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
10In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.
15And you, Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, being patient and full of mercy and truthful.
3He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows.
6The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me.