⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ He that loves not has not known God; for God is love. ⁹ The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

¹³ By this we know that we continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

¹⁷ By this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that as he is we also are in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love. ¹⁹ We love, because he first loved us.

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

¹ Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to 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 keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous; ⁴ for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.