Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: / For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth; / That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.