For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not ...
1 John 4:19- We love because he first loved us. John 15:13- Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Jeremiah 31:3- The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithful...
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. -John 15:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. -1 Corinthians 13:13 We love because he first loved us. -1 John 4:19 ...
It says, first, that it is a love independent of, and earlier than, ours. We love, as a rule, because we recognise in the object to which our heart goes out something that draws it, something that is loveable. But He whose name is ‘I am that I am’ has all the reasons of His...
21. I John 4:19 - "We love him, because he ___ loved us." 22. I John 5:12 - "He that hath the ___ hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." 23. II John 1:2 - "For the ___ sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever." ...
The Making Common of God: Augustine, Oliver O'Donovan, and Reading Scripture with Love Within the communication of Scripture, we are brought into a space of shared significances and meanings with God that he has made common with us because we love most what he loves most, namely himself. ...
They teach we are a failure if we don’t fit their formula. I know I will always fall short of perfection (all are sinners and fall short…) — but I am perfectly loved the same every day by God and Jesus. I want to live my life to please Them, sharing Their love and grace ...
The Commandment of God is what God wantsof us. But if we understand the words concerning the image of God, we also know what God wantsforus. That God first loved us, before He demanded anything of us, and that He demands nothing more than that we should accept His love, that is, ...
Because God knew in advance that the Gentiles would be declared righteous through faith, he first preached to Abraham, as it is said in the Holy Scripture, In you shall all the Gentiles be blessed.Aramaic Bible in Plain EnglishFor because God knew beforehand that the nations are made right ...
The Myth of Unconditional Love While God loves with a greater love than humans can comprehend, His holiness and justice also must be taken into consideration. "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" (John 14...