1 John 3:1
Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.
Luke 13:34
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! she who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen takes her brood under her wings, and you would not come!
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.
1 Peter 2:6-7
For there is a passage of Scripture that runs-- 'See, I am placing in Zion a choice and precious corner-stone; And he who believes in him shall have no cause for shame.'
2 Peter 1:4
For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions.
1 John 4:9-10
The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.