"So we have come to know to believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God
in him." 1 John 4:16.
"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should
be called children of God; and so we are.
The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know
him." 1 John 3:1.
"We love because he first loved us." 1 John 4:19.
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13.