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7 Bible Verses That Make You Feel Loved

7 Bible Verses That Make You Feel Loved

Last updated on: February 18, 2016 at 11:45 am by Jack Wellman

7 Bible Verses That Make You Feel Loved 2016-02-18T11:45:29-06:00 Jack Wellman

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Here are seven Bible verses that I hope will make you feel loved by God.

Romans 5:6-8 “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

It’s difficult to imagine that Jesus died for us while we were still wicked sinners (Rom 5:8) and the ungodly (Rom 5:6) and who were natural enemies of God (Rom 5:10). Some people would go so far as to die for someone who they though was righteous, even though none truly are (Rom 3:10-12, 23), but what love is it that dies for the ungodly, wicked, enemies of God? That is how immeasurable the love of God is.

First John 4:9-12 “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.”

The Apostle John saw the love of God manifested or clearly revealed to him in his lifetime by Jesus Christ but no more so than on the cross and even while they were nailing Him to the cross and waiting for Him to die, Jesus cried out “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). Can we even imagine such a love as this? When dying on the cross and saying to those who were in the process of murdering Him and to ask God the Father to forgive them, is just too incredible to fathom, so what an amazing love this is!

Jeremiah 31:3 “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”

In this great and precious promise to Israel, God reminds them of His faithfulness, even when they were unfaithful, and as a result, they were sent into captivity but God declares “I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow” (Jer 31:13) “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jer 31:33-34). The fact that this was written to Israel makes no difference to the believer as this is said of all who repent and trust in Christ; “I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Ephesians 3:17-19 “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

The Apostle Paul uses language that a gardener would understand and in this analogy, Paul wanted the Ephesians to be firmly rooted in Jesus Christ and grounded in His love so that they might “have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth” of the love of God. This love surpasses all human understanding and comprehension. Try to describe that to an unbeliever and no wonder their reaction would be as Paul wrote, “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1st Cor 1:18).

Exodus 34:6-7 “The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.”

How steadfast is this godly love? Paul writes about the great confidence he had in it by writing, “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39).

First John 4:7 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”

The Apostle John referred to himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” and so he could write from experience that “we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1st John 4:16) and since God is abiding in every believer, we should love one another because God is the source of love and “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1st John 4:8), no matter what they say with words.

Romans 5:5 “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

The love of God will never put us to shame because on the Day of Judgment we have the assurance that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ (Rom 8:1) because they’ve made peace with God through Jesus Christ (Rom 5:1). When Jesus Christ appears or if we die before that happens, we have no need to fear because God has already judged our sins on the cross of Christ.

Conclusion

If you desire to read more about the love of God, begin in Genesis 1:1 and end your reading in Revelation 22:21 and you’ll find it on almost every page of the Bible. To look for the love of God more specifically, I suggest you read the Gospel of John, for in that book, the word “love” appears more times (39) than all the other gospels combined (27), so you can see the Apostle John’s focus is on the love of God; more so in this book than in any other in the Bible (John 3:16).

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.

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