He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

We know that every one begotten of God does not sin, but he that has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

and they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.

The mercy

For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

to Timotheus, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to Timotheus, my beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Unto

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.

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And this is the promise which he has promised us, life eternal.