We love ¹  because he loved us first.

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain ¹  in my love.

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) ¹ 

Therefore, be ¹  imitators of God as dearly loved children

In this ¹  is love: not that ²  we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice ³  for our sins.

The Pharisees ¹  (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed ²  him.

Thus the people who had come to mourn ¹  said, “Look how much he loved him!”

For they loved praise ¹  from men more than praise ²  from God.

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹ 

No, in all these things we have complete victory ¹  through him ²  who loved us!

just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” ¹ 

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

Husbands, love your ¹  wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

We know, ¹  brothers and sisters ²  loved by God, that he has chosen you, ³ 

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then ¹  we also ought to love one another. ² 

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time ¹  had come to depart ²  from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end. ³ 

I in them and you in me – that they may be completely one, ¹  so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved ¹  leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. ¹ 

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; ¹  but the one who is forgiven little loves little.”