LOVE MERCY CROSS

Before the world began, He planned it all, and in Christ He did it all and finished it at the cross. Now as you believe, Christ works it out in you and through you. For it is God who works in you to will and to do His good pleasure.

Love, Mercy, Acceptance, and Reconciliation.

Those four words properly understood are a concise coverage of scripture.

God who is love, Loved us and in His love, exercised His Mercy to forgive us and provide everything necessary for life
including His Accepting of us while we were yet in sin, and did everything necessary to Reconcile us to Himself.

You may say, what do those words mean. What's so special here? The answer is in the understanding.
Isaiah 41:20 instructs us to see, that we may know, and then consider (take it apart, analyze, and put it back together)
that we may understand all together (all the parts and the whole). See, Know, Consider, and Understand ... is the Bible introduction to learning or teaching

What does any action done in true love always have to qualify it as true love? What does the writer mean when he says, "...though I give my body to be burned and have not love, I gain nothing."? Bible ref 1 Cor 13:3

A man can do a thing that appears good, yet God says it did not qualify as LOVE. And another man can do the same thing, and it qualifies as love. So it is not just the deed, but the heart reason and desire that motivated the deed. Therefore, a list of examples of what love did, does not easily teach us what love is.

Like the woman who touched the hem of Jesus' garment and was healed, because she comprehended who He is. The rest of the crowd was looking at Him, many were touching Him, but it requires faith comprehension of Him to receive. Let us understand. (Isaiah 41:20) Then can we receive.
Here is the functional, or operational definition of agape, divine love: For the eagle to fly, it has to have two wings. The wings are self-sacrificially seeking the other's good. (1 Cor 13:5 tells us love does not seek it's own) On the idea of self-sacrifice, consider Prov 24:10-12 and meditate upon them with the idea of putting yourself out to do what Jesus would do. You'll see, if you're willing to see, how God is telling us that people make excuses to themselves for not doing even the little things.
Agape kind of love is both self-sacrificial and seeking the other's good.
When you want to test your heart motives, those are the two criteria I see for divine love.
Consider a man who runs into a burning building to rescue a child.
One does it because he knows he is expected to and to fail to try would discredit him in the eyes of people.
Another does it because he is trying to work his way to heaven with good works and figures this will get him a lot of points.
The man who gets an eternal reward for it is the one who lays his life on the line because of his desire to see good for the other person. That's what Jesus did for us. In seeking our good, He sacrificed Himself.

Understanding divine love and how to test our ownselves by it, is a wonderful help in personal relationships. This is so important, it is covered with other writings. But teen-agers and spouses need to understand such things. When they are willing to hold the plumb-line of divine love up to their own thoughts and intents, it becomes a bright shining light to the right course of actions. But we cannot learn all things at once, so we will continue on the theme here of Salvation, the Action Approach.

So you see, love can have special understandings. Likewise, other words used in scripture can have special meanings, not necessarily the same as in popular literature.

Scripture defines words by context. It can be compared to a set of simultaneous equations, where the whole text defines each variable, word. Some object to such strictness, but scripture says "...every word of God is pure, refined seven times..." So who are we to believe, God or the world's idea?

Another course taught the exactness of math concepts. It's method of teaching was to have the students write a math book based upon totally new definitions, then give a problem that could only be solved by ignoring everything else you had learned except that one book. You had to take that one book as it explained the new rules and use it's rules to get the correct understanding of the answer. That's the way I see the Bible. God tells us His way. The world tells us "their" way. And the two are very different.

Mercy... is the second most important concept. His mercy is over all His works. Psalm 145:9
God does not touch us until after He first exercises Mercy, else we would be consumed.
His mercy is over all His works. Draw a circle and put all His works toward you inside that circle of Mercy.
Like the sky covering the earth, His mercies cover you.

The mercies of God changes lives. His mercy is too often people seek only after they think they have done a terrible thing and need to be forgiven. In truth, His mercy is much more than just a forgiveness we seek after murdering someone.
And too many people only seek His mercy after they think they've done something especially terrible.

As we know the fullness of His mercy, we can live by faith therein.
Like the green olive tree planted by the river of water, we flourish as we trust in the mercy of God through Christ.
Psalm 52:8

It is through His mercy that we are enabled to receive everything else He provides and does for us.

This is shown by the Mercy Lid on top of the Ark of the Covenant.
Three items are in the Ark of the Covenant, the law and the rod that budded and the golden pot of manna was under the Mercy Lid.

The golden pot of manna is His provision.
The rod that budded is new life.
The tablets of the law leads us to repentance and receiving the other two.

Big point is this, mercy is not just forgiveness. In it's full sense, connected with the same root word used for womb, it is the taking away of all that causes death and the giving of all necessary for life. See your Strong's Concordance for racham and rechem, H7355 , H7356 and H7358. Same root word used for womb and for mercy. Consider what the womb does. The babe earns none of the help, neither the removing of the toxic wastes, death dealing poisons, which are taken away by the blood, nor the giving of the food, also by the life giving blood. All the forgiveness of the toxicity and all the giving of the life is by the fullness of the rachem of the womb, the mercy of the womb. That, my friend, is the big picture, the original picture of the mercy of God. Forgives and removes everything that would cause death, and gives everything necessary for life. I'm awe struck.
Not only His forgiveness, but also His provision is through His mercy.
This important understanding is shown somewhat by the figure of the green olive tree in Psalm 52:8

The next word is ACCEPTANCE. This is another verb, to accept. Like a loving parent picks up a filthy baby in its vomit and diarrhea. God accepted us while we were yet in sin. Acceptance should be taught as a major understanding. Unless we accept what God did for us, how can one receive it? Unless God works in us to accept His truth, how can it be received? Unless we accept His judgment upon our sinful actions, how can we know they are sinful? Unless we accept His conviction of our sins, how can we have godly sorrow for them? Unless we accept the truth of eternal salvation, how can we know the joy of our salvation? Unless we accept the truth of our situation, how can we confess in agreement with God that it was reconciled at the cross? Acceptance of the truth, both of sin and of righteousness, is necessary. From there we go on to accept not only the truth, but one another, as Christ has also accepted us. Important connected thoughts on this are:
God made us acceptable in the beloved.
Accept one another as God has accepted you.... for Christ's sake.
He accepted us while we were yet in sin. He did not wait for us to get perfect. He accepted us while we were in sin. Like a father picking up the dirty baby covered with baby puke and vomit and needing clean diapers.

Can you accept people in mercy with love as God did?
God did all this and did everything necessary to bring it all to pass in reconciling us to Himself through Christ Jesus and His shed blood, crucified at that cross.
Colossians 1:20

The word RECONCILIATION is used here in the totally big sense of everything God did in His total plan of Salvation to reconcile us to Himself.
After you accept someone, or something, some situation, also do what is necessary to reconcile things.
Much more to say, but it is in the teaching. I have given you the overview. From here the rest can grow in understanding. You can also get the material to further help you see these wonderful truths.
Tell your children, your family and friends, ... every word of God is pure, refined seven time... and His word endures to all generations.... He meant what HE said, and He preserved that truth for you and yours.
Psalm 100:5 Psalm 145:13 Psalm 12:6 Amen.

Divine love in its simplest structure can be communicated to children as explained above.
I like to compare the two required features as two wings of an eagle.
You fly with both of them. Self-sacrificially seeking the other's good.
self-sacrifice, putting yourself out, paying a price
seeking the other's good
with faith towards God through Christ Jesus

Remember here the first couple of points in the foundations of the principles of the doctrine of Christ
1. repentance from dead works (works without the life of God in them)
2. faith towards God
see Hebrews 6:1

Mercy is like unto the portal of God's love through which Christ came unto us. See Luke 1:78

His mercy is over all His works. All references are to the KJV. 2 Corinthians 13:5 tells us to evaluate our own faith, actions, and understandings. I know I suffered for my lack of knowledge, my lack of what to believe, my lack of faith. I know others have also. If we only knew His mercies. Please teach them to your children, and to your friends.

Acceptance has become a huge word to me and I hope it will to you. Full of meaning and constant in application to the situation at hand. We have to accept things as they are else we cannot deal with them. Only after you accept a situation can you acknowledge it was reconciled at the cross. What part of the present truth of yourself, or your situation that you deny, that part, you cannot see at the cross two thousand years ago. What part you cannot forgive, you cannot be in agreement with our Lord at the cross. We have to lovingly forgive and accept the truth of things before we can be in agreement together with Him at that cross.

Then as we follow His pattern shown in Hebrews 12:2, we can expect to see the reconciliation of God manifest in our life. Keeping our eyes fixed upon Jesus,
who for the Joy set before Him (of our good and salvation)
ENDURED the cross (we may have to endure things for a little while, a season)
DESPISING the shame (people mocked Him and may mock you for the path you take)
and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God

Hebrews 12:2 gives us three important ingredients to the Christian walk, to the faith life. It is a way for all of Hebrews 11, the faith chapter of the Bible.

And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 1st John 5:4

God has comforted and strengthened us to do the same for others. 1 Corinthians 1:3,4 explains this. Doing for others is a test, a growing place, of divine love in us, whether we will put ourselves out or not. Whether we will be stretched or not.
It is also a test of mercy. Will the traveler see the needy man lying in the ditch and say "He shouldn't have let that happen to him." Or will he help?
Perhaps someone acted foolish and got caught in a bad situation. Will there be forgiveness for their foolishness? Or will the traveler shake his head and walk on by?
It is also a test of provision. Will the traveler provide for the needs. Will 2 Corinthians 4:1 As we believe in the abiding presence and mercy of God to help us, we draw strength to help others and faint not.
Hebrews 12:3 for the idea of the strong in faith will not be wearied, neither faint in their mind
Rev 2:3 the faithful man will labor and put himself out for the namesake of Christ, but the unfaithful and weak and unbelieving and fearful and self-seeking will you say it is too much and quit or never begin. Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. (But how often does a man excuse himself because he does not want to put himself out? This is a test of divine love) 1 Cor 1:3,4 Blessed be God... the Father of Mercies and the God of all Comfort... who comforteth us in all our tribulation THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO COMFORT THEM which are in any trouble by the comfort we ourselves are comforted of God.
Another scripture teaches us that the man who says he has not (in this context, any comfort from God to help others, even the little he has shall be taken away)
See Matthew 13:12 for the idea of losing what you won't acknowledge what you have.
And see Matthew 25:29 for the idea of getting more of what you acknowledge you already have by using it.
This idea is repeated in all four gospels
Luke says it in 8:18 and Mark in 4:25
Luke 19:26 clarifies that for those who refuse to acknowledge the help of God , they may say they don't have the ability to help someone else, but God says they do and because they wouldn't recognize it, then what they have shall be taken away.
All of this connects with the idea of self-sacrifice. It takes time and effort to help someone else. Jesus did it.
He is teaching those who believe to follow Him and do likewise.
In these kinds of matters of faith, it is so true, that according to the measure you give, so shall you also receive. Give of yourself to help others, and receive of God the anointing strength, ways and means to do so, multiplied more and more. At least pray for others with faith towards God. Your faith will grow.

As I saw the salvation of God coming down from heaven giving us eternal salvation, I saw Jesus upon the cross, nailed there to that cross, and becoming sin that we might be made the righteousness of God. He bore all our sins, and all the pain and suffering of all our sins. He bore the emotional pain of all our failures and losses and fears and situations. God RECONCILED ALL THINGS (Colossians 1:28) This includes all situations. He did it for all eternity, and in that doing, He did all things in the here and now, He worked it all together for good. In the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ we have our eternal salvation and the salvation of all things , whether they be things in earth or things in heaven. See Jesus by faith, hanging on that cross, nailed to it; and in his flesh, all sin and all curse also nailed to that cross. As His flesh died, so all sin and curse and the power thereof was destroyed. He bore it all. For us. God the Father in heaven, gave Him the power, the glory, to endure all that sin and all the curse. It came upon Him as He endured, as He hung there. God's power enabled Him. That was the greatest demonstration of love and power, for in those hours, He was glorified with the power of God to endure such sin. A circuit was completed for sin to be drawn to Him and destroyed in His death on that cross. Spiritually see Him increasingly shining with shekeinah glory like a golden wire heating up as it carried more and more current. As the sin and curse and pains of our situations came upon Him, He increased in the ability to endure. I see Him there as a bright and shining light, showing forth the love of God in a way we all can see. The greatest demonstration of love and power was in Him enduring the cross. See Hebrews 12:3 for His example to our lives in enduring. Within a few hours He went from perfect righteousness to becoming sin. He must have glowed like a red hot poker as the sin and curse came upon Him, the glow and the light being of God to enable Him, giving Him the power to endure and not come down off that cross. It was at the cross that He bore your pain, your guilt, your suffering, the agony you feel to do away with it that you might be saved from it and restored. He bore it all. For those who doubt, I remind you it says, all things were reconciled there. It means all things, and includes all your situations.

That same salvation that came from heaven and given to you, is now yours. It is yours. Yours to apply to each situation in your life, and for others. You can pray for the salvation of God to touch your situations and those of others. Just come into agreement with God that it is true. God planned it before the world began, and He did it through Christ at the cross, and now you show your faith by believing what He did at the cross. Jesus said, It is done.

For you to see the results of His salvation, only come into agreement with Him. In His love, He forgave us our sins, and provided all things necessary for life, and accepted us, and did everything to work it all out on earth as it is in heaven. He reconciled us. I know that after a season of enduring, there shall come the resurrection and transformation where we see the truth of "All things work together for good..." in Romans 8:28 By applying such faith to any situation in your life, you can see the salvation of God in the situation. That which has been given you from heaven through Christ at the cross, you can now in faith of it all, apply to each and every situation of your life. For He has given you Eternal Salvation from heaven, which you now apply by faith to temporary situations in your life on earth. That which came from above and was given to you, is now yours to apply on earth. Hebrews 12:3 Keeping our eyes fixed upon Jesus (seeing Him on that cross)
who for the joy set before Him (of knowing our salvation)
endured the cross
despising the shame (we too have to despise the shame of people mocking our faith and deeds) and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:3 is the way to live the Christian life of faith described in the previous chapter. The vision of God's promise is the joy set before you that gives strength to endure and overcome. (Without a vision the people perish. The joy of the Lord is your strength. With joy shall you draw forth water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:3) Notice how Hebrews 12:3 and Isaiah 12:3 team up to give a beautiful understanding, and remember it.

Folks, I can't put it all here. I have a notebook full of details on this, but what you have received here is more than enough by God's Spirit for you to understand all you need. His Spirit of wisdom and revelation be with you to see, and know, and consider and understand all together what great things He has done. That which was sent down vertically from heaven to you, is now yours to apply horizontally on any situation of yours or others, by faith. Amen. To God be the glory, and the power, and the honor, forever and ever, Amen.

That cross where He was nailed, is now yours, to apply all the faith God has given you as touching any thing, any situation. By faith seeing what God did, you apply the truth of it now to each situation. He planned. He did. He gave you the faith thereof. And He now continues to work in you applying the faith of His finished work to each situation in your life, that you might see the fullness of all things working together for good to those who believe and are the called according to His purpose, which is eternal salvation.

Faith in what He accomplished is your mightiest weapon. For the weapons of our warfare are spiritual and mighty through God. Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, testifying to what great things He has done, and wield it in your life. Amen. If you have a situation that needs God's touch, remember this: what you can't forgive and accept, neither can you be in agreement with Jesus at the cross. He said, Father, forgive... Any hurtful, painful, needful situation in your life, or anothers for which you pray, you must acknowledge the truth of it, (isaiah 41:20), and forgive and accept ... to be in agreement with Jesus at the cross. Then acknowledge He bore it there at the cross. And have faith patience (romans 8:24,25) to endure a season while it is being manifested on earth according to your faith in what He has finished at the cross. When you come into agreement with Jesus at the cross on the matter that concerns you, you will see the salvation of God in that matter. What He gave from heaven, is now yours to give on earth. As He touched from heaven , you can now by faith in His work, touch situations on earth, acknowledging that they too were reconciled at the cross of Jesus. Colossians 1:20 Yep, I studied out the Greek of the word for things in Col 1:20, and it does mean things. It's not limited to sin. He didn't just forgive our sins there. All things were reconciled through His crucifiction, death, burial and resurrection. See Isaiah 53 and read it over and over aloud, slowly with feeling, till it sinks in. All things.... To us who believe, Christ is all and in all. 1 Cor 8:6 Col 3:11 Amen To him that believes in agreement together with God shall nothing be impossible.

===================== a collection of scripture on the love of God ==============

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth.

Romans 8:34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Titus 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

I John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

I John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

I John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

I John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];

Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;

Ephesians 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Ephesians 2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

Ephesians 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone];

Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

Ephesians 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,

Ephesians 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

Ephesians 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Ephesians 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

Ephesians 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Ephesians 3:9 And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

Ephesians 3:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Ephesians 3:21 Unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me;

I Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

I Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

II Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

II Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen.

Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

I John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

I John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

I John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

I John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

I John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

I John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

II John 1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

I John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

I John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

II Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

II Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.

Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

I John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

I John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Nehemiah 1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

Ecclesiastes 9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

I John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

II Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

I John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

I John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

I John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

I John 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

I John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

I John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

I John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty [and] four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.