1 John 4:7-10

4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.*

4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.