Jesus said, "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you." (John 15: 12-14)
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8).
"The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;" (Jeremiah 31:3).