16 "For this is how God loved the world: He gave*his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,* neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 Long ago the Lord said to Israel:

"I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love.

With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!

His faithful love endures forever.

8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful,

slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

15 But you, O Lord,

are a God of compassion and mercy,

slow to get angry

and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.

3 Your unfailing love is better than life itself;

how I praise you!

7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.

God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

19 We love each other* because he loved us first.

1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. 8 Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining.

3 Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.

4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

17 For the Lord your God is living among you.

He is a mighty savior.

He will take delight in you with gladness.

With his love, he will calm all your fears.*

He will rejoice over you with joyful songs."

17 "I love all who love me.

Those who search will surely find me.

4 Others were given in exchange for you.

I traded their lives for yours

because you are precious to me.

You are honored, and I love you.

9 O God, we meditate on your unfailing love

as we worship in your Temple.

10 Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you;

give justice to those with honest hearts.

20 My old self has been crucified with Christ.* It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)

14 *May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

5 May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.