Jesus’s love always abides with you. Your faith, hope, joy, and peace will abound more and more.

Jesus’s love always abides with you. Your faith, hope, joy, and peace will abound more and more.

“And now abide [meno] faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest [meizon] of these is love.” (1Cor 13:13)

“Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Rom 5:5)

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Rom 15:13)

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?…Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom 8:35,37-39)

“For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” (Rom 1:17)

“for the just shall live by faith.” (Gal 3:11)

“Now the just shall live by faith” (Heb 10:38)

“But the just shall live by his faith.” (Hab 2:4)

“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2Cor 5:7)

“And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you” (1Thes 3:12)

“Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God” (1Thes 4:1)

“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment” (Phil 1:9)

For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2Pet 1:8)

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater [meizon] than he who is in the world.” (1Jn 4:4)

“remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father” (1Thes 1:3)

Reading: 1Cor 13-15; Lk 1