“Draw me after you and let us run together!
The king has brought me into his chambers.”
“We will rejoice in you and be glad;
We will extol your love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you.”

“Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,

Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;

Its flashes are flashes of fire,

The very flame of the Lord.

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him more?”

He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you

love Me more than these?”

He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be

accursed.

Maranatha.

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

Constraineth

“For I am full of words;
The spirit within me constrains me.

But they urged Him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over.” So He went in to stay with them.

But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;

One

All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at

the proper time.

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an

Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

Then

But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

General references

What shall I render to the Lord
For all His benefits toward me?

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

But you did not learn Christ in this way,

We love, because He first loved us.