Adapted from 1 John 4:7-15 (WEB)

Beloved, 

Let us love one another; for love is of God

And everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. 

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God.

Adapted from 2 Corinthians 5:21 & Romans 5:6-8

Leader: For him who knew no sin God made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

People: For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die. But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Submitted by Dustin Ray (WEB, adapted for liturgical use)