Even Before God Made the World...HE Loved Us

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ephesians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 15:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 14:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 16:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 15:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Luke 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.