Matthew 19:17 Cross References - Godbey

¹⁷ And He said to him, Why do you ask me concerning the good One? One is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.

²⁶ He said to him, What has been written in the law? how do you read it? ²⁷ And he responding said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with divine love from all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁸ And He said to him, You answered correctly: do this, and you shall live.

⁵ For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, that the man having done this shall live in it.

¹¹ But that no one is justified by law in the sight of God, is evident: because, The just shall live by faith: ¹² though the law is not of faith; but the one having done these things shall live in them. ¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: because it has been written; Cursed is every one having been hung on the wood:

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

⁸ The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love. ⁹ In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him. ¹⁰ In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.

¹⁶ And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.