The Cost Series
Week 4: The Co$t of Love
1 John 3:18 AMPC
Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity).
1 John 3:18 NIV
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
God is
God is
God is
Love requires
1st Corinthians 13:8-10 NIV
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
1 John 4:7-8 AMPC
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].
8 He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.
Love requires
Ephesians 4:5-6 AMPC
5 [There is] one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of [us] all, Who is above all [Sovereign over all], pervading all and [living] in [us] all.
Love requires
2nd Corinthians 3:17 AMPC
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom).
Love requires
1st Corinthians 13:2 AMPC
2 And if I have prophetic powers ([b]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God’s love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody).
Love requires you to
Psalm 121:1-2 NIV
1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
Love requires
1st Corinthians 16:14 AMPC
Let everything you do be done in love (true love to God and man as inspired by God’s love for us).
Love Co$ts:
Love Produces:
Romans 8:28 AMPC
We are assured and know that [[a]God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.
1 John 4:18 NIV
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Proverbs 3:3-4 NIV
3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.
1 John 3:18 AMPC
Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity).