This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

But God has shown us how much he loves us---it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!

We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!

Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son---will he not also freely give us all things?

This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed

so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Jesus answered, "What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent."

And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

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.

"I will announce," says the king, "what the LORD has declared. He said to me: 'You are my son; today I have become your father.

The only one left to send was the man's own dear son. Last of all, then, he sent his son to the tenants. 'I am sure they will respect my son,' he said.

The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father's only Son.

Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after another.

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.

For God never said to any of his angels, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father." Nor did God say about any angel, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son."

The testimony is this: God has given us eternal life, and this life has its source in his Son.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."

The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life---life in all its fullness.

I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.

The Father and I are one."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

and those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Jesus answered him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Your real life is Christ and when he appears, then you too will appear with him and share his glory!