John 17:24-26
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24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be (A)with me (B)where I am, (C)to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me (D)before the foundation of the world. 25 (E)O righteous Father, even though (F)the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 (G)I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love (H)with which you have loved me may be in them, and (I)I in them.”
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1 John 4:7-8
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God Is Love
7 Beloved, (A)let us love one another, for love is from God, and (B)whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 (C)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because (D)God is love.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have (A)prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, (B)so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 (C)If I give away all I have, and (D)if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
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