1 John 4:19

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.

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.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,