• Romans 9:13-16
  As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated." What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
   
• 1 John 3:16-17
  By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
   
• John 15:9-10
  "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
   
• Romans 8:32-39
  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:
  ' For Your sake we are killed all day long;
  We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
   
• Ephesians 1:3-4
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
   
• Exodus 34:6-7
  And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
   
• Luke 6:35-36
  But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
   
• Hebrews 12:5-11
  And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
  “ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
  Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
  For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
  And scourges every son whom He receives.' If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
   

Related Scriptures

• 1 John 5:1-3
  Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
   
• Colossians 3:14
  But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
   
• Matthew 5:43-44
  "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
   
• John 15:13
  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
   
• 1 Corinthians 13:5
  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
   
• Colossians 3:12
  Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
   
• John 13:35
  By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
   
• 1 Corinthians 13:13
  And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
   
• 1 John 4:17-18
  Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
   
• Deuteronomy 6:5-9
  You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 'And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
   
• Deuteronomy 7:9
  "Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
   
• Matthew 5:46-48
  For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
   
• Romans 13:8-10
  Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
   
• 2 Timothy 1:7-9
  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
   
• Psalm 84:11
  For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
  The LORD will give grace and glory;
  No good thing will He withhold
  From those who walk uprightly.
   
• Matthew 24:12
  And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
   
• Matthew 22:37-39
  Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
   
• Romans 8:31
  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
   
• Romans 9:22-23
  What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
   
• 1 Peter 4:17
  For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
   
• 1 John 2:15
  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
   
• 1 John 3:18
  My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
   
• Exodus 20:6
  but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
  
   
• Psalm 5:5
  The boastful shall not stand in Your sight;
  You hate all workers of iniquity.
  
   
• Proverbs 13:24
  He who spares his rod hates his son,
  But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
  
   
• Malachi 1:2-3
  ' I have loved you,' says the LORD.
  ' Yet you say, 'In what way have You loved us?'
  Wasnot Esau Jacob's brother?'
  Says the LORD.
  ' Yet Jacob I have loved;
  But Esau I have hated,
  And laid waste his mountains and his heritage
  For the jackals of the wilderness.”
  
   
• Romans 5:9
  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
   
• 1 Corinthians 8:1
  Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
   
• Ephesians 2:5
  even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
   
• 1 Timothy 1:5
  Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
   
• Hebrews 2:16-17
  For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
   
• Hebrews 13:5
  Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
   
• 2 John 1:6
  This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
   
• Genesis 50:20
  But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
   
• Psalm 23:4
  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I will fear no evil;
  For You are with me;
  Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
   
• Psalm 78:38
  But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity,
  And did not destroy them.
  Yes, many a time He turned His anger away,
  And did not stir up all His wrath;
  
   
• Psalm 139:5-6
  You have hedged me behind and before,
  And laid Your hand upon me.
  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
  It is high, I cannot attain it.