He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

The mercy

For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

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

To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Unto

That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

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And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.