¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

¹¹ Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

⁷ How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

⁸ But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

⁸ He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

⁹ And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

¹⁹ We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

³ Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

⁶ So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

¹⁵ Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

¹⁶ And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

¹⁷ In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

¹⁰ And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

¹ O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹⁶ For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.