First John 4: 7 – 16
| 4:7 | Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. |
| 4:8 | Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love. |
| 4:9 | The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him. |
| 4:10 | In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins. |
| 4:11 | Most beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| 4:12 | No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. |
| 4:13 | In this way, we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he has given to us from his Spirit. |
| 4:14 | And we have seen, and we testify, that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. |
| 4:15 | Whoever has confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. |
| 4:16 | And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him. |
John 11: 19- 27
11:19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, so as to console them over their brother.
11:20 Therefore, Martha, when she heard that Jesus was arriving, went out to meet him. But Mary was sitting at home.
11:21 And then Martha said to Jesus: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
11:22 But even now, I know that whatever you will request from God, God will give to you.”
11:23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.”
11:24 Martha said to him, “I know that he shall rise again, at the resurrection on the last day.”
11:25 Jesus said to her: “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in me, even though he has died, he shall live.
11:26 And everyone who lives and believes in me shall not die for eternity. Do you believe this?”
11:27 She said to him: “Certainly, Lord. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God, who has come into this world.”