Love covers sin

Faith, grace, righteousness and love. 

These are the four things that Paul teaches over and over again.  The law that God gave to Moses was good, but it couldn’t bring salvation.  Only the blood of Christ can do that.  After Christ died on the cross, he fulfilled the law of Moses.  Now we are under a new covenant with God.  Paul describes it as the same one that Abraham had.  Abraham lived over 400 years before God gave the law to Moses, yet Abraham was saved by Gods grace and made righteous because he believed God.  This is now the system we are under.  Not law.

Concerning Abraham, God tells us this:  Romans 4: 21 – 25  And (Abraham) being fully persuaded that, what he (God) had promised, he was able also to perform.  And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.  Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Romans 8: 10 – 11  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make alive) your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Paul tells us that now on this side of the cross in I Corinthians 13:13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity (love), these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

We believe that by the grace of God, he sent his Son Jesus Christ to die for our sin, and that Christ was crucified and died and rose the third day.  And by believing this God imputes to us the righteousness of Christ.  God showed us his love for us by allowing his Son to die for our sins.   It is not your love for God that blesses you, but it is Gods love for you.

I John 4: 7 – 21  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.  Herin is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 

Proverbs 10:12  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Galatians 5:6  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision (Jewish) availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision (Gentile): but faith which worketh by love.

I John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.