Christ's Love Compels Us to Love Him
Loving God As a Community
Romans 5:8
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 5:14–15
14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
1 John 4:19
19 We love because he first loved us.
John 3:16
16 “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 11:36
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
1 Peter 2:9–10
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Psalm 34:3
3 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
