7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God  * and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us  * and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice  *,* for our sins.

15 Whoever confesses  * that Jesus is the Son of God — God remains in him and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

19 We love  * because he first loved us.  *

16 For God loved*the world in this way:*He gave*his one and only*Son,*so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.*

8 But God proves  * his own love for us  * in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy,  * because of his great love  * that he had for us,  *5 made us alive  * with Christ even though we were dead  * in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,

slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth.  *

7 How priceless your faithful love is, God!

People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.  *

3 My lips will glorify you

because your faithful love is better than life.  *

1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.  *

His faithful love endures forever.

18 Who is a God like you,  *

forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion  *

for the remnant of his inheritance?  *

He does not hold on to his anger forever  *

because he delights in faithful love.  *

11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice.  * Become mature, be encouraged,  * be of the same mind,  * be at peace,  * and the God of love  * and peace will be with you.