Why is GOD lovin’ the World?

God Loved The World

 

John 3:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

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

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...

John 3:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...

John 17:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Psalm 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

John 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Revelation 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Titus 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,

Galatians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Acts 14:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 13:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

John 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:14-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ...

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Amos 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.