They will know we are Christians by our love.

God's love for us.

1 John 4:10 – This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 Psalm 103:8  The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

How we are to love

1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

Ephesians 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

1 Peter 1:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart

1 John 4:12 – No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Luke 6:35  But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

What love looks like in our lives

 Luke 6:32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 16:14 Do everything in love. 

1 Corinthians 13:3 – If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:13 – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 John 3:14 – We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Commanded to love

John 15:12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

2 John 1:6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love
Luke 6:27 But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you