Bible Verses About God's Love

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The world — not a chosen few. And whosoever — the door left deliberately wide. The most famous verse is also one of the most inclusive.

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

The love arrived before we cleaned up — while we were still at our worst. It was never a reward for being good enough.

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

Love is defined here by direction. It started with God, toward us — not the other way around. We are loved first.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Paul exhausts every category he can think of, just to say: none of it can reach far enough to cut you off from this love.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Scripture refuses to let love for God float free of how we treat people. Claiming the one while hating the other, John says plainly, is a lie.