The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

The mercy

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

Unto

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

For the payoff of sin is death, but the 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 testified concerning his Son.)

General references

Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.