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

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God. ⁸ He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love. ⁹ In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son 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 to be a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

¹³ By this we come to know that we are abiding in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit; ¹⁴ and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ If any man confesses that "Jesus is the Son of God." God is abiding in that man, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

¹⁷ In this is love made perfect with us, so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment, because we are living in this world as He lives. ¹⁸ Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love. ¹⁹ We love because He loved us first.

²⁰ If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen. ²¹ And we have this command from God: HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.

¹ Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child. ² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³ For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome. ⁴ For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.