"Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them."

Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

I in them and you in me, so that they may be completely one, in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me.

I made you known to them, and I will continue to do so, in order that the love you have for me may be in them, and so that I also may be in them."

The LORD your God is with you; his power gives you victory. The LORD will take delight in you, and in his love he will give you new life. He will sing and be joyful over you,

Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves, and punishes everyone he accepts as a child."

But you, my friends, keep on building yourselves up on your most sacred faith. Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit,

and keep yourselves in the love of God, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy to give you eternal life.

Listen! As for that group that belongs to Satan, those liars who claim that they are Jews but are not, I will make them come and bow down at your feet. They will all know that I love you.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

Jesus said to them, "If God really were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own authority, but he sent me.

After they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord," he answered, "you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Take care of my lambs."

A third time Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter became sad because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" and so he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you!" Jesus said to him, "Take care of my sheep.

"Those who love their father or mother more than me are not fit to be my disciples; those who love their son or daughter more than me are not fit to be my disciples.

Whoever does not love the Lord---a curse on him! Marana tha---Our Lord, come!

We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.

May God's grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with undying love.

You love him, although you have not seen him, and you believe in him, although you do not now see him. So you rejoice with a great and glorious joy which words cannot express,

We love because God first loved us.

We know now that you know everything; you do not need to have someone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God."

And no one has ever gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven."

but I know him, because I come from him and he sent me."

and now they know that everything you gave me comes from you.

I gave them the message that you gave me, and they received it; they know that it is true that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me.

Righteous Father! The world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you sent me.

What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like our sinful nature, to do away with sin.

The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.

But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,

This is a true saying, to be completely accepted and believed: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of them,