God is Love

1 John 4:8b
... God is love.

John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 6:23
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:9-10
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.

Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ…

Psalm 103:8; 86:15; 145:8
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

Micah 7:18b
He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities.

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice, Blessed are all those who wait for Him.