LOVE of God. To keep ourselves in the LOVE of God is to have REPENTED of our SINS, to BELIEVE in, and to DAILY take up the cross to FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST, the Only Begotten Son of God (John 3:16-18).

“For God so [LOVED] the world, that he gave [HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD] not perish, but [HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE]” (John 3:16).

“[FOR THERE IS ONE GOD, AND ONE MEDIATOR] between God and men, the man Christ Jesus: who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1 Timothy 2:5–6).

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God” (Hebrews 3:12).

“But exhort one another [DAILY], while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast [UNTO THE END]” (Hebrews 3:13-14).

“Work out your own [SALVATION] with fear and trembling that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the [DAY OF CHRIST]” (Philippians 2:12, 1:10).

“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by [OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM], whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thessalonians 2:1).

“Keep yourselves in the [LOVE OF GOD], looking for the [MERCY] of our Lord Jesus Christ [UNTO ETERNAL LIFE]” (Jude 1:21).

“And the Lord direct your hearts into the [LOVE OF GOD], and into the [PATIENT WAITING FOR CHRIST]” (2 Thessalonians 3:5).

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the [LOVE OF GOD], and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen” (2 Corinthians 13:14).