² and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

¹⁹ we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;

¹⁴ and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that `is' in Christ Jesus:

⁹ According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

¹⁶ that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

¹⁸ that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what `is' the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

¹⁹ to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

²⁰ and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

¹³ greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

¹² `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

⁸ and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

³⁴ `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;