CCC 458

The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God's love: "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."⁷² I Jn 4:9. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."⁷³ Jn 3:16.