19 We are loving God, for He first loves us."
1 John 4:19 Cross References - CLV
Luke 7:47
47 on behalf of which, I am saying to you, pardoned are her many sins, for she loves much. Now to whom there is scant pardoning, there is scant loving."
John 3:16
16 For thus God loves the world, so that He gives His only-begotten Son, that everyone who is believing in Him should not be perishing, but may be having life eonian."
John 15:16
16 Not you choose Me, but I choose you, and I appoint you, that you may be going away and be bringing forth much fruit, and your fruit may be remaining, that anything whichsoever you should be requesting the Father in My name, He will be giving it to you."
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
Galatians 5:22
22 Now the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 2:3-5
3 (among whom we also all behaved ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the comprehension, and were, in our nature, children of indignation, even as the rest),
4 yet God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us"
5 (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!)"
Titus 3:3-5
3 For we also were once foolish, stubborn, deceived, slaves of various desires and gratifications, leading a life in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another."
4 Yet when the kindness and fondness for humanity of our Saviour, God, made its advent,
5 not for works which are wrought in righteousness which we do, but according to His mercy, He saves us, through the bath of renascence and renewal of holy spirit,
1 John 4:10
10 In this is love, not that we love God, but that He loves us, and dispatches His son, a propitiatory shelter concerned with our sins."