A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments

40. Q. Is God pleased with those who love and obey him?
        A. Yes. He says, ‘I love them that love me’.  

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• Proverbs 8:7

I love those who love me,
and those who seek me diligently find me.

• Exodus 20:6

…but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

• 1 John 4:7-16

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

Previously posted questions and answers.