This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
Christ is the principal and surpassing proof of God's love toward us. It was not merely immeasurable that God spared not His own Son, but marvelous goodness beyond measure, which ought to fill our minds with wonder. Whenever we look upon Him, he fully confirms that God is love.
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Love descends from heaven itself, it is God's nature and the fruit of His Spirit. Whoever loves with genuine holy affection is born of God and knows Him truly. But whoever loves not, knows not God; such a soul shows by its very coldness that true knowledge of the divine nature has no dwelling place within it.
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Commenting on 1 John 4:7-13
God's special love to His elect was secret from eternity, but now at the sending of His Son it broke forth and shone out in glory. That the Father, against whom we have sinned, the Lawgiver of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, should send His only begotten Son to be Saviour of sinful men is an amazing instance of love.
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