*1.* “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” *2* “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” *3* “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” *4* “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. We love because he first loved us.”