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What does the Bible say about god loves me?

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The Bible teaches that God truly loves His people with a holy, steadfast, and saving love, shown most clearly in giving His Son for sinners. John 3:16 and Romans 5:8 proclaim that Christ died for us while we were still sinful, so God’s love is grace, not something we earn. In Christ, believers are assured that nothing can separate them from God’s love, as Romans 8:35-39 declares. Jeremiah 31:3 calls it an everlasting love, and Zephaniah 3:17 pictures the Lord rejoicing over His redeemed people. God’s love also strengthens fearful hearts, as Isaiah 41:10 promises, and leads us to love because He first loved us, according to 1 John 4:19.

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  • John 3:16

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

  • Romans 5:8

    But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Isaiah 41:10

    Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

  • 1 John 4:16

    We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

  • Romans 8:35-39

    [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [36] Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." [37] No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, [39] nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • John 15:13

    Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

  • Jeremiah 31:3

    Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

  • 1 John 4:19

    We love Him, because he first loved us.

  • Zephaniah 3:17

    Yahweh, your God, is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

  • Ephesians 3:17-19

    [17] that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, [18] may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, [19] and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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