3. Ephesians 5:1-2 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

5. Eph. 3:17-19 And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

7. “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.… … the most significant fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.”
A.W. Tozer

9. 1 John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us
1 John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.

11. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

13. Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

15. 1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

17. Ephesians 5:1-2 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children