For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that (life) which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, (the faith) which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony (to be borne) in its own times;