love of god
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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,
19Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.
8Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
20I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
7Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.
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.
13But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.
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.