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.

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.

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?

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.

We love him, because he first loved us.

And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.