Dear friends, let us love one
another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and
knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is
love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one
and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 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. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved
us, we also ought to love one another. 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.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has
given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the
Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone
acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love
lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete
among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world
we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love
drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is
not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever
claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does
not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom
they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who
loves God must also love their brother and sister.
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