God's Love For Us

Hey Joey, I’ve been think about our conversation from the other day and pulled out a few Scriptures that speaks of God’s love towards mankind. I find it helpful to meditate on Scripture when I have difficult questions. I for one am astounded by God’s love for me specifically while yet a sinner He made propitiation for me by sending Jesus into the world to pay a debt that He didn’t owe because I owed a debt I couldn’t pay!

Blessings my friend,

John

Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

2 Corinthians 13:14 “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.”

Ephesians 1:4–5 “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,”

Ephesians 2:4–5 “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),”

2 Thessalonians 3:5 “May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.”

1 John 3:1 “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”

1 John 4:9–10 “By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

John 3:16 ““For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” (Note: world is the Greek noun kosmos which means the created order and implies that which is in that order. In Context, this love is toward mankind because no other object has the capacity to sin or believe in Christ Jesus. Jesus came to save humans and give to humans eternal life. Thus the word world implies mankind.)