1 John 4:7-1 John 5:4 - God's Love Revealed

⁷ Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other. ¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

¹³ In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

¹⁷ By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world. ¹⁸ Fear is not in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, and he who is afraid has not been fully perfected in love. ¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

²⁰ If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? ²¹ And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

¹ Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him. ² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we may keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.