7 Why, it is scarcely conceivable that any one would die for a simply just man, although for a good and lovable man perhaps some one, here and there, will have the courage even to lay down his life.
8 But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.
23 for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God,
24 gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus.
27 »But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies; seek the welfare of those who hate you;«
28 bless those who curse you; pray for those who revile you.
8 Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.
16 We know what love is–through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.
19 We love because God first loved us.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
5 She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.
16 For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.
3 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,
5 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ –it is by grace that you have been saved–
6 She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.
7 She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.
9 God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.
8 But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.
4 But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,
5 as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit,
6 which He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
43 »You have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy.'«
44 But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors;
45 that so you may become true sons of your Father in Heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked as well as the good, and sends rain upon those who do right and those who do wrong.
46 For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that?
47 And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48 You however are to be complete in goodness, as your Heavenly Father is complete.
10 This is love indeed–we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
35 Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger or the sword?