What does the Bible say about love of god?

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  • John 3:16

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • Romans 5:8

    But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 John 4:19

    We love Him, because he first loved us.

  • 1 John 4:8

    He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

  • Galatians 2:20

    I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

  • 1 John 4:7

    Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

  • John 15:13

    Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

  • 1 John 3:1

    Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

  • 1 John 4:16

    We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:13

    But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.

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