6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 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.
1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on 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.
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
21 Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
“God’s love is always supernatural, always a miracle, always the last thing we deserve.” Robert Horn
“God has given you a marvelous promise: If you will seek Him, you will find He is right beside you. No matter how deep your valley may seem, God's love for you is deeper.” Michael Youssef
“We cannot run to Jesus without discovering that it is Jesus who is always running first and fastest to us — to you and me. Jesus is the answer for all our guilt and shame too...Take a few moments to marinate in the love our Father has lavished on you in Jesus. This isn’t a selfish act. It’s an act of wonder, love, and praise...God loves you just as much as he loves Jesus. God cannot love you more, and he will never love you less. God doesn’t love you to the degree you are like Christ, but to the degree you are in Christ, which is one hundred percent. God has hidden your life safely and completely in Jesus. Your Father has begun a good work in you that he will most definitely complete. All of this doesn’t make you special, but it certainly makes you his.” Scotty Smith
“We are fully known and fully loved. We are exposed and not rejected. We are seen and embraced. No need to run for cover. In Jesus, there is nothing left to fear, nothing left to prove, and nothing left to hide.” Scott Sauls
“God speaks to those who give up the loud for the love of His heartbeat.” Ann Voskamp
“Because of Christ, there is no place God will not go and no one He will not bless. You are never beyond God’s love, and you are never alone. God is present even in the midst of your greatest need, your greatest weakness, and your greatest failures. Grace would have it no other way.” ThornCrown’s Welcome
“Give me a hundred men who love God with all their hearts and fear nothing but sin, and I will move the world.” John Wesley
“On the basis of our Savior’s atoning sacrifice and in the strength of the Holy Spirit’s power, we charge you who love Jesus to fight bravely in this holy war, for truth and righteousness, for the kingdom and the crown. Onward! The battle is not yours but God’s, and you will yet hear Him say, ‘Well done, brave warrior, well done!’” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“Has the Lord ever answered your prayers, and it felt like an UPHEAVAL of the situation, leaving butterflies in your stomach because you just experienced God Almighty at work? The enemy wants us to believe that our God is weak and unable or unwilling to do anything. If we could only fathom the depth of His love for us, how He is able to do more than we could ever DREAM and that that power works and resides in us. Take heart and be encouraged!” Anonymous
“It’s true. God does love you. He does have a wonderful plan for your life. So just know this: God’s will for you is better than your plan for yourself.” Greg Laurie
“It is impossible for any human speech to express the full meaning of this delightful phrase, ‘God is for me.’ He was for us before the worlds were made. He was for us or He would not have given His well-beloved Son; He was for us when He smote the Only-begotten and laid the full weight of His wrath upon Him—He was for us, though He was against Him. He was ‘for us’ when we were ruined in the Fall—He loved us notwithstanding all. He was for us when we were rebels against Him and with a high hand were bidding Him defiance. He was for us or He would not have brought us humbly to seek His face. He has been for us in many struggles; we have been summoned to encounter hosts of dangers; we have been assailed by temptations from without and within—how could we have remained unharmed to this hour if He had not been for us? He is for us with all the infinity of His being, with all the omnipotence of His love, with all the infallibility of His wisdom. Arrayed in all His divine attributes, He is for us—eternally and immutably for us; for us when the heavens shall be rolled up like a worn-out robe; for us throughout eternity. And because He is for us, the voice of prayer will always ensure His help. ‘Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call.’ This is no uncertain hope, but a well-grounded assurance—'this I know.’” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“O my dear, heavenly Father, I desire to love thee and my neighbor with a pure heart fervently, and beg thou wouldst let me know and enjoy thy love in Christ, as the only means of producing this love in me. For how can my heart be cold, when resting at the cross of Christ, and feeling the virtue of His blood? Or how can it be hard, when lying in thy bosom, richly tasting of thy grace, and sweetly experiencing thine everlasting love to me, a vile, miserable sinner? Oh! May a sense of thy love melt my hard heart into love, and change it thoroughly.” K. H. Von Bogatzky
“Believe that you are His Beloved – it’s only when you trust He loves you that you really begin to live.” Ann Voskamp
“The Lord sometimes suffers His people to be driven into a corner that they may experimentally know how necessary He is to them...Whatever our morning’s need may be, let it like a strong current bear us to the ocean of divine love. Jesus can soon remove our sorrow, He delights to comfort us. Let us hasten to Him while He waits to meet us.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Our hope isn’t based on an emotion or a feeling. It lives in a person who beat death itself and Who loves us deeply enough to literally go through hell to rescue us. So what were you discouraged about again? Because hope is anchored in resurrection, it is resilient.” Carey Nieuwhof
“Let us put our complete trust in our Leader, since we know that in prosperity or adversity, sickness or health, popularity or contempt, His purpose will be worked out, and that purpose will be pure, unmingled good to every heir of mercy. We will find it sweet to go up the bleak side of the hill with Christ; and when rain and snow blow into our faces, His dear love will make us far more blessed than those who sit at home and warm their hands at the world's fire. When Jesus draws us, we will run after Him. No matter where He leads us, we follow the Shepherd.” Charles H. Spurgeon