8 Bible Verses about First Love

We love, because He first loved us.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [that is, the atoning sacrifice, and the satisfying offering] for our sins [fulfilling God’s requirement for justice against sin and placating His wrath].

But God clearly shows and proves His own love for us, by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me].

You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you.

“For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.

But the Lord God called to Adam, and said to him, “Where are you?”

In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.