19 We love, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 Cross References - LEB
Luke 7:47
47 ⌊For this reason⌋* I tell you, her sins—which were many—have been forgiven, for she loved much. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little."
John 3:16
16 For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
John 15:16
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
Galatians 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 2:3-5
3 among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will* of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath* by nature, as also the rest of them were.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
5 and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
Titus 3:3-5
3 For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
4 But when the kindness and love for mankind of God our Savior appeared,
5 he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
1 John 4:10
10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation* for our sins.