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.”

Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord;

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has

for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.

The mercy

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

To Timothy, my beloved

son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Unto

so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

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This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.