Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.  (1 John 4:8)

The noun ‘love’ translates: ἀγάπη; agapé; this word denotes love or goodwill that comes from moral preference.  It occurs 116 times is the New Testament in every book apart from the Gospel Mark and the James’ encyclical.

Love is then a disposition, God is disposed to love and chooses to act upon it:

For God so loved (apapeo) the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  (John 3:16)