Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7 NIV)
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:8 NIV)
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9 NIV)
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:10 NIV)
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:11 NIV)
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:12 NIV)