9 Just as the Father has loved me,+ so I have loved you; remain in my love.

20 I am nailed to the stake along with Christ.+ It is no longer I who live,+ but it is Christ who is living in union with me. Indeed, the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,+ who loved me and handed himself over for me.+

2 and go on walking in love,+ just as the Christ also loved us+ and gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice,+ a sweet fragrance to God.+

16 By this we have come to know love, because that one surrendered his life* for us,+ and we are under obligation to surrender our lives* for our brothers.+