John 16:27

The Father Himself loves the disciples because they have loved Jesus and believed He came from God. The Father's love embraces those who trust His Son.

Cross-references · 25

• John 14:21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• John 14:23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
• John 17:23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
• John 8:42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1 Pet 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• John 21:15–17So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• John 17:25–26O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
• Matt 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• John 16:30Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
• Rev 3:9Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
• Zeph 3:17The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
• Eph 6:24Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Heb 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
• John 7:29But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
• Rom 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
• 1 Tim 1:15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
• Gal 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Jude 1:20–21But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
• John 17:7–8Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
• John 3:13And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

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