2. Matt 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

3. Whoever does not love abides in death.
1 John 4:3
Whoever does not love abides in death.

4. 1 John 4:10
This is real love--not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

5. Romans 5:8
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

6. Matt 5:44
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you

8. Matt 5:46
If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much.

9. John 13:35
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

10. Jer. 16:5
Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush.

11. We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.

12. Eph 3:17-19
that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,  and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.