1 Peter 1:2 NIV

1 Peter 1:22 niv
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.

2 Thessalonians 2:13 niv
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

Ephesians 1:4-5 niv
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—

Hebrews 12:24 niv
to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.