See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

And he said: "I love you, O Yahweh, my strength."

How abundant [is] your goodness that you have stored up for [those who] fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before [the] children of humankind.

How precious [is] your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

And since ancient [times] they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he {acts} for the one who waits for him.

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

God is love

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

And he

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.

General references

Better [is] a dinner of vegetables when love [is] there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.

By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.