2 CORINTHIANS 6.18
and I will be for a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the LORD Almighty.”
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JOHN 15.9
According as the Father loved Me, I also loved you, remain in My love;
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JOHN 14.12-13
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who is believing in Me, the works that I do—that one will also do, and greater than these he will do, because I go on to My Father; and whatever you may ask in My Name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
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1 JOHN 4.19
we love Him, because He first loved us;