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• LoveDoctrine & Theology

  In Christianity, love is understood as the nature of God and is regarded as the virtue at the heart of the greatest commandment Christians are called to keep. It encompasses both love for God and love for one's neighbor.

• HoseaBible

  Hosea is a prophetic book of the Old Testament in which Hosea, an eighth-century BC prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, uses his own marriage to portray idolatrous Israel and the love of God, who will not finally abandon His people.

• Moral Influence TheoryDoctrine & Theology

  The moral influence theory is a theory of the atonement holding that the heart of the atonement lies in Christ's death on the cross revealing God's love, which moves human hearts and leads people to repentance and love.

• Psalm 106Bible

  Psalm 106 confesses Israel's repeated rebellion against God from the time of the Exodus onward and celebrates the steadfast love of God, who nevertheless remembered His covenant. The psalm concludes Book IV of the Psalms.

• 1 John 5Bible

  1 John 5 is the final chapter of the First Epistle of John. It addresses the faith and love of those born of God, the witness of the Spirit, the water, and the blood to the Son, the assurance of eternal life, and prayer. It closes the letter with an exhortation to keep away from idols.

• Romans 8Bible

  Romans 8 opens with the declaration that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. It speaks of life in the Spirit, adoption as children of God, and hope amid suffering, and it closes with the assurance that nothing can separate believers from the love of God.

• Romans 9Bible

  Romans 9 is the chapter in which Paul pours out his grief over his fellow Israelites and, drawing on Old Testament quotations, explains God's promise and election, His mercy and sovereignty, and the righteousness that comes by faith.

• CommandmentBible

  A commandment is a biblical term for the commands God gave to his people. It encompasses the Ten Commandments and the provisions of the law in the Old Testament, as well as the commandments of love that Jesus summarized in the New Testament.

• 1 John 3Bible

  1 John 3 teaches that the children of God are revealed by a life of doing righteousness and loving one another, and it presents Christ's laying down of His life as the standard of love.

• AgapeBible

  Agape (Greek ἀγάπη) is the principal New Testament word for "love." It denotes both God's love for human beings and the love that those who have received that love show toward God and their neighbors.

• Romans 8:38–39Bible Verses

  This passage declares that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, nor anything else "shall be able to separate" believers from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. Widely regarded as the climax of Romans 8, it is frequently cited in debates over the assurance of salvation and the perseverance of the saints.

• Romans 5:8Bible Verses

  Romans 5:8 reads: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." It is a representative verse for the teaching that God's love precedes any human worthiness, and it is also connected to debates in the doctrine of the atonement over how the cross is to be understood.

• 1 John 4:16Bible Verses

  First John 4:16 confesses that believers have known and believed the love of God, declares that "God is love," and teaches that God and the one who dwells in love dwell in each other. It is widely quoted as a concise summary of the character of God.

• Romans 8:32Bible Verses

  A verse in which Paul argues that, because God gave up his own Son, he will also graciously give believers all things. It is frequently quoted as an assurance of God's love, and interpreters differ over the extent of the atonement and the meaning of "all things."

• John 3:16Bible Verses

  John 3:16 declares that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him should have everlasting life. Widely regarded as a summary of the gospel, it is the best-known verse in the Bible. Calvinism and Arminianism interpret the scope of "the world" and "whosoever believeth" differently.

• 2 Corinthians 13:13Bible Verses

  2 Corinthians 13:13 is the benediction with which the apostle Paul closes 2 Corinthians, invoking together the grace of Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit; most English Bibles number it 13:14. In Korean Protestant churches, it is the standard text for the benediction pronounced at the close of worship.

• 1 John 3:17–18Bible Verses

  This passage teaches that if a person who has material possessions ignores a brother in need, the love of God cannot be said to dwell in him, and it urges believers to love not in word but in deed and in truth. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and practice and of almsgiving.

• 1 John 4:7–8Bible Verses

  A passage of Scripture that begins "Beloved, let us love one another" and concludes "for God is love." Widely cherished as a rare expression that describes the nature of God in a single word, it has also prompted theological discussion about the relationship among God's love, justice, and judgment.

• Romans 13:1Bible Verses

  Romans 13:1 exhorts every person to "be subject unto the higher powers" and declares that all authority comes from God. It is a key text on the relationship between church and state, and how it should be applied under unjust regimes has long been debated.