Love Comes from God
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.
9 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only4:9 Or only begotten or unique Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. 10 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice4:10 Or as a propitiation for our sins.
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 love4:19 BYZ and TR We love Him because He first loved us.