Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love ones neighbor as ones self, is more than all the whole burntofferings and the sacrifices.
John 16:24
Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye will receive, that your joy may be made full.
John 21:17
He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my sheep.
1 John 4:19
We love, because he first loved us.
1 John 5:2-3
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do his commandments.