Small Whisper: A Podcast of Christian Belief

God's Love

1 John 3:8: God is love

-God’s love is action

1 John 3:16, 18

1 John 4:8-12

Romans 5:8

-God’s love is costly to him

1 John 3:16

1 John 4:9

Romans 5:8

-God loves, not because the objects of his love are lovely, but because he is love.

1 John 4:10: Not that we have loved God, but that he loved us

Romans 5:6-11

But this does not mean that God is reluctant to love or is emotionless in his love for us.

Zephaniah 3:17

John 5:10-11

1 John 3:1

-Common grace

Matthew 5:44-46

-Love within the Godhead

Matthew 3:17, 17:5

Matthew 12:18

John 14:31

-God’s love is an electing or choosing love

Deuteronomy 7:6-10

-Covenant love

Deuteronomy 7:6-10

Psalm 106:45

Ephesians 3:14-19

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Jeremiah 31:3

I have loved you with an everlasting love;

therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. (ESV)