7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

10 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice* for our sins.

15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

19 We love* because He first loved us.

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only* Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,

slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

7 How precious is Your loving devotion, O God,

that the children of men take refuge

in the shadow of Your wings!

3 Because Your loving devotion is better than life,

my lips will glorify You.

1 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good.

His loving devotion endures forever.

18 Who is a God like You,

who pardons iniquity

and passes over the transgression

of the remnant of His inheritance —

who does not retain His anger forever,

because He delights in loving devotion?*

11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another,* be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.