3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
21 But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
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.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 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.
17 “The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”
“His love to us counted nothing too costly, too difficult, too grievous. Let us likewise show our love to Christ.” David Clarkson
“God doesn’t love us because of our worth, we are of worth because God loves us.” Martin Luther
“When men suffer great pain of mind, the blood apparently rushes to the heart. The cheeks are pale; a fainting fit comes on; the blood has gone inward as if to nourish the inner man while passing through its trial. But look at Christ in His agony; he is so utterly oblivious of self that instead of His agony driving His blood to the heart to nourish Himself, it drives it outward falling to the ground. The agony of Christ, inasmuch as it pours Him out upon the ground, pictures the fullness of the offering that He made for men. Can we fathom how intense the wrestling must have been through which he passed, and will we not hear its voice to us? ‘In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.’ Behold the great Apostle and High Priest of our profession, and sweat even to blood rather than yield to the great tempter of your souls.” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“Although the love of Christ surpasses our present knowledge, we may know enough to feed us in this life and whet our appetite for more in the life to come. We have enough to guide us through our pilgrimage on earth, and an abundance reserved for us in heaven. Christ’s love has depths in which the daring soul may drown, and abundant shallows for the humble to safely wade. Though our knowledge of Christ’s love is imperfect, we may know enough to shame us that we have not loved Him more. His love allowed him to suffer the most dreadful things on our account. As we reflect upon it, it is with great shame that we have been so weak to suffer for His name.” Vincent Alsop
“The prosecutor of your soul can’t ever nail you: Time can’t wreck your life. You can’t wreck your life. Nothing in all of this world can separate you from the love of Christ and His love is your life.Your life is unwreckable because Christ’s love is unstoppable.” Ann Voskamp
“Sharing with others about the Love of God manifest in countless ways - taking TIME to BE with and for people through prayer, encouraging words, even a kind smile. Somehow Grace is transmitted through these humble, ‘ordinary’ acts — and Power is released that changes lives. What honor has been mine to meet with innumerable people and see them take hold of the Word of God, and the ways of God, and thereby reap the changes in their lives which they so needed/wanted. Amazing, gracious, kind and faithful Jesus. The unswerving faithfulness of God; His unceasing Love and heart toward us —— His GRACE ever-present; even when we cannot see or recognise it. In every minute, every moment, there with arms outstretched ——Jesus!” Paula Kirby
“The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“The believer is in spiritual danger if he allows himself to go for any length of time without tasting the love of Christ and savoring the felt comforts of a Savior’s presence. When Christ ceases to fill the heart with satisfaction, our souls will go in silent search of other lovers… By the enjoyment of the love of Christ in the heart of a believer, we mean an experience of the ‘love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us’ (Rom. 5:5)… because the Lord has made himself accessible to us in the means of grace, it is our duty and privilege to seek this experience from Him in these means till we are made the joyful partakers of it.” John Flavel (1630-1691)
“In Jesus, we have been affectionately named and are so secure in our Father’s love, that we are free even to turn down a meeting request from a world famous rock star. Put another way, the love of God, when taken hold of, frees us from any need to be noticed, to make a name for ourselves, to find significance through achievement and advancement or from having access to fame and fortune. We already have these gifts and these blessings in abundance—in infinite supply—from the Father who is not blind to our value but who sees us and loves us dearly.” Scott Sauls
“The children of God are ruled in their inmost powers by love - the love of Christ constraineth them; they rejoice that divine love is set upon them, they feel it shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them, and then by force of gratitude they love the Saviour with a pure heart, fervently. My dear reader, do you love Him?” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, and multiply each through endless years; one minute of heaven is worth them all.” Thomas V. Moore
“The wisdom of God has ordained a way for the love of God to deliver us from the wrath of God without compromising the justice of God. The gospel.” John Piper
“Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.” Oswald Chambers