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For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Mark 8:35, ESV
We start out selfish, but Christ came to die and rise again for our forgiveness that we may join in His sacrifice and love others more than ourselves for His sake.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8, ESV
We often feel like we should enact justice, but God moves in us to love others with His love. Sometimes this involves using us to bring justice, but we are reminded that He paid the price for justice and will return to fulfill all justice against wickedness.
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
This world is cynical, untrusting, and faithless, but our God gives us His Holy Spirit to show and to help us live out everlasting love, mercy, grace, and faithfulness.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39 ESV
In world focused on ignoring God and loving self, we gather together to encourage each other to love God and others sacrificially.
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19, ESV
Let us worship our God for loving us enough to come and die for us and by loving others with that same love.
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus
Romans 15:5, ESV
Our worship and thankfulness to our God who saves us is expressed in our unity that Jesus prayed for, and He personally will help us and encourage us.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7, ESV
We show our praise and thankfulnessto our Lord who saves us, who is the Light of the world, by following His example of sacrifocial love for each other and our world.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15, ESV
Our powerful and effective worship of the One who gave His grace, love, and life for us is to study and rightly use and share His Word, showing the world His faithfulness and goodness.
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Zephaniah 3:17, ESV
God loves us, saves us, comforts us, and rejoices in our salvation and good works done in His Name by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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