1Sa 2:30, Psa 91:14, Joh 14:21, 23, 16:27, 1Jo 4:19 | ESV | STEP | Therefore the Lord , the God of Israel , declares : I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever , but now the Lord declares : Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor , and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed .

1 Samuel 2:30

30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^a‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^bbut now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Psalms 91:14

14 “Because he ^cholds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
I will protect him, because he ^dknows my name.

John 14:21

21 ^eWhoever has my commandments and ^fkeeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^ghe who loves me ^hwill be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ⁱmanifest myself to him.”

John 14:23

23 Jesus answered him, ^j“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ^kwe will come to him and ^lmake our home with him.

John 16:27

27 ^mfor the Father himself loves you, because ⁿyou have loved me and ^ohave believed that I came from God. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts from the Father}

1 John 4:19

19 ^qWe love because he first loved us.