In this Way, the Father Loves

For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him
should not perish
but have eternal life.
For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world,
but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned,
but whoever does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

And this is judgment:
the light has come into the world,
and people loved the darkness rather than the light
because their deeds were evil.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light,
lest his deeds be exposed.
But whoever does what is true comes to the light,
so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God.
(John 3:16-21)

In this the love of God was made manifest among us,
that God sent his only Son into the world
so that we might live through him.

In this is love,
not that we have loved God
but that he loved us
and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(1 John 4:9-10)