For God So Loved the World

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

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.

But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus' side,

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

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

As the Father has loved me, so have I 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.

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