Love of God

The love of God is God's love for people: everlasting and steadfast, shown above all in the sending of his Son, and nothing can separate those who belong to him from it.

God is love

• 1 John 4:8
  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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• 1 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.And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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• Exodus 34:6
  And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
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Shown in sending his Son

• 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.For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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• Romans 5:8
  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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• 1 John 4:9-10
  ⁹In 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.This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. ¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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• Ephesians 2:4-5
  ⁴But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
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Everlasting and steadfast

• 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.The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
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• Psalm 136:1
  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
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• Lamentations 3:22-23
  ²²It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. ²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
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• Zephaniah 3:17
  The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
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Nothing can separate us from it

• Romans 8:35-39
  ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ³⁷Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹Nor 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.neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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• Ephesians 3:17-19
  ¹⁷That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth ¹⁹And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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Loved as his children

• 1 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.Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
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• Hebrews 12:6
  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
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• Proverbs 3:12
  For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
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See also

• Love
• Grace
• Mercy
• Adoption

Notes

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