John 16:27

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

Zep 3:17; Mt 10:37; Joh 3:13; Joh 7:29; Joh 8:42; Joh 14:21,23; Joh 16:30; Joh 17:7,8,25; Joh 17:23,26; Joh 21:15-17; Ro 8:3; 1Co 15:47; 1Co 16:22; 2Co 5:14; Ga 4:4; Eph 6:24; 1Ti 1:15; Heb 12:6; 1Pe 1:8; 1Jo 4:19; Jude 1:20,21; Re 3:9,19

¹ tc A number of early mss (א¹ B C* D L pc co) read πατρός (patros, “Father”) here instead of θεοῦ (qeou, “God”; found in Ì⁵ א*^,2 A C³ W Θ Ψ 33 Ë^1,13 Ï). Although externally πατρός has relatively strong support, it is evidently an assimilation to “I came from the Father” at the beginning of v. 28, or more generally to the consistent mention of God as Father throughout this chapter (πατήρ [pathr, “Father”] occurs eleven times in this chapter, while θεός [qeos, “God”] occurs only two other times [16:2, 30]).