god is love
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16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
8Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
19Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.
7Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.
20I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
15And you, Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, being patient and full of mercy and truthful.
17The Lord your God is the strength in your midst; he will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness. In his love, he will be silent. He will exult over you with praise.