He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest my self to him.

As the Father hath loved me, and I have loved you, continue in my love:

Who, when he was come, and saw the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all with steadiness of heart to adhere to the Lord.

And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us: for God is love; and he, that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

We know that whosoever is born of God, doth not practise sin: but keepeth himself from it, and the wicked one doth not touch him.

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

The mercy

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ:

to Timothy my true son in the faith, be grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to Timothy my beloved son, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

Unto

so grace might reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

He, that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself: he, that believeth not God, hath in effect made Him a liar, because he believed not the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.

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And this is the promise which He hath promised us, even eternal life.