For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.