We love because he first loved us.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

And the people stood watching; but even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."

If I give all I have to the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, was pleased

Let love be genuine. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

or rude, it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it keeps no record of wrongs,

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him. In love

And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will continue to do the things which we command.

If anyone does not abide in me, he is like a branch that is cast away and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom."

For we know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you;

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

to the praise of his glorious grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Yes, and I ask you also, true yoke-fellow, to help these women who have struggled at my side in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance, until the redemption of those who are God's possessionto the praise of his glory.

For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will,