Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, and all the understanding, and all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
John 16:24
Till now you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.
John 21:17
He said to him a third time; Simon, son of John, are you a friend to me? Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, Are you a friend to me? and he said to him, Lord you know all things; you know that I am a friend to you. Jesus said 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 keep his commandments.