the love of god

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.

⁸Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.

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.

⁹If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

⁵but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

⁷Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

³⁴I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.

⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing.

¹³But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.

³⁰And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from your whole mind, and from your whole strength. This is the first commandment.’

¹⁸My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.

³For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.

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.

¹⁵If you love me, keep my commandments.

⁶Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?

¹Before the feast day of the Passover, Jesus knew that the hour was approaching when he would pass from this world to the Father. And since he had always loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

¹⁸Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.

²⁴No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

²¹Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them: it is he who loves me. And whoever loves me shall be loved by my Father. And I will love him, and I will manifest myself to him.”