◄ I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. ►

We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. § [God] has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began. § Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.