19 We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 Cross References - Riverside
Luke 7:47
47 For this reason I tell you her sins, many as they are, have been forgiven, for she loved much. For he to whom little is forgiven loves little."
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that every one who believes in him may not perish, but have life eternal.
John 15:16
16 It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
Galatians 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness,
Ephesians 2:3-5
3 Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead in misdeeds, made us alive along with Christ — by grace we have been saved —
Titus 3:3-5
3 For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
4 But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared,
5 "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit
1 John 4:10
10 In this is love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.