Mark 12:33
Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself ??that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."
John 16:24
hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
John 21:17
For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.
1 John 4:19
We love, because He loved us first.
1 John 5:2-3
This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands