1 John 4:16
So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.
1 John 3:24
Whoever practices obedience to His commands remains in union with Him and He in union with him; and in this way we know that He remains in union with us, by the Spirit that He has given us.
1 John 3:1
See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.
1 John 4:8-10
Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.
John 6:69
and we have come to believe, yes more, we know by experience, that you are the Holy One of God."
1 Corinthians 2:9
But, as the Scripture says, they are: "Things which eye has never seen and ear has never heard, and never have occurred to human hearts, which God prepared for those who love Him."
1 John 3:16
We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 4:12-13
No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,