Matthew 3:17  and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased."

Isaiah 42:1  "Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.

John 1:18  No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

1 John 4:9,10,16  By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. • In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. • We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

John 17:22-24  "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; • I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. • "Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

1 John 3:1  See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

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