1 John 3:16

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

We love him, because he first loved us.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

So then death works in us, but life in you.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.