So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess our acknowledgment of it, for He Who promised is reliable and faithful to His word.
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
This is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
LIFE AND DEATH Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.