Luke 10:37

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.

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

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

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

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.

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

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.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

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.”

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

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.

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

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

“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.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

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.”

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

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

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—

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

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

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

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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?

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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.

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

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

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

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,

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

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.

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

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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

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.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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—