Take me with you—let us hurry.
Oh, that the king would bring me to his chambers.

Y We will rejoice and be glad for you;
we will praise your love more than wine.

W It is only right that they adore you.

Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death;
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames—
the fiercest of all.

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Since they could not pay it back, he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,”

He told him.

If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Marana tha that is, Lord, come!

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love,

Grace be with all who have undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

For God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you showed for His name when you served the saints—and you continue to serve them.

You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy,

Constraineth

For I am full of words,
and my spirit compels me to speak.

But they urged Him: “Stay with us, because it’s almost evening, and now the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

One

We all went astray like sheep;
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished Him
for the iniquity of us all.

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 John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

who gave Himself—a ransom for all,
a testimony at the proper time.

But we do see Jesus—made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death.

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous One.

Then

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to look directly at Moses’ face because of the glory from his face—a fading glory—

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, 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. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.

however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

General references

How can I repay the Lord
for all the good He has done for me?

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

But that is not how you learned about the Messiah,

We love because He first loved us.