It's worth noting that these verses describe God's love as unconditional. That is to say we do nothing to deserve it. However, we are also told that God loves us as much as he loves Jesus (John 17:23). Therefore, there is nothing we can do to be loved by God more than we already are!
'For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.' John 3:16
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‘A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just as I have loved you; that you also love one another.’ John 13:34
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‘This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.’ John 15:12
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‘I (Jesus) in them, and you (Father) in me, that they (Those who believe through the message of the apostles) may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.’ John 17:23 (My words in brackets to show meaning)
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'Hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.' Rom 5:5
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'But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' Rom 5:8
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'No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.' Rom 8:37-39
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'I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself up for me.' Gal 2:20
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'But God, being rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (for by grace you have been saved) and raised us up with Him, and made us to sit with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,' Eph 2:4-6
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'For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.' Eph 3:14-19
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‘Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.’ Eph 5:2
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'But when the kindness of God our Saviour and His love appeared, not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to His mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour.' Titus 3:4-6
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'See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we are called children of God (because that is what we are). This is why the world does not understand us- because it did not understand Him.' 1 John 3:1
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‘In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son as the appeasement sacrifice for our sins.’ 1 John 4:10
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'We love Him, because He first loved us.' 1 John 4:19
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