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

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ God's love for us has been revealed in this way??hat God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. ¹⁰ The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

¹³ This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us??ecause he has given us some of his Spirit. ¹⁴ We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God keeps in union with him and he with God. ¹⁶ So we know and believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love keeps in union with God, and God with him.

¹⁷ Love attains perfection in us, when we have perfect confidence about the Day of Judgment, because here in this world we are living as he lives. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear. For fear suggests punishment and no one who feels fear has attained perfect love. ¹⁹ We love because he loved us first.

²⁰ If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. ²¹ This is the command that we get from him, that whoever loves God must love his brother also.

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children. ² This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands. ³ For loving God means obeying his commands, and his commands are not burdensome, ⁴ for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world.