And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

[There] is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

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

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son [to be the] propitiation for our sins.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

We love, because he first loved us.

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.