11 Bible Promises about God’s Love

Romans 5:8

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16

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

Ephesians 5:1–2

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Psalm 89:1

I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever;
with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

1 John 4:7–8

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:10,12

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. . . . No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Exodus 34:6–7

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

1 John 4:16

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Lamentations 3:22–23

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

Hebrews 12:6

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.

1 John 4:19

We love because he first loved us.

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