We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.

Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments.

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.