16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
Jeremiah 31
3 the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
John 3
16 “For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 8
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?