1 John 4:7-21
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7aBeloved, let us blove one another, for love is from God; and ceveryone who loves has been 1,dborn of God and eknows God. 8The one who does not love does not know God, because aGod is love. 9By this the love of God was manifested 1,ain us, that bGod has sent His 2only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10In this is love, anot that we have loved God, but that bHe loved us and sent His Son to be cthe propitiation for our sins. 11aBeloved, if God so loved us, bwe also ought to love one another. 12aNo one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His blove is perfected in us. 13aBy this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14We have beheld and abear witness that the Father has bsent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15aWhoever confesses that bJesus is the Son of God, God cabides in him, and he in God. 16aAnd we have come to know and have believed the love which God has bin us. cGod is love, and the one who dabides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17By this, alove has been perfected with us, so that we may have bconfidence in cthe day of judgment, because das He is, so also are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love; but aperfect love casts out fear, because fear 1involves punishment, and the one who fears is not bperfected in love. 19aWe love, because He first loved us. 20aIf someone says, “I love God,” and bhates his brother, he is a cliar; for dthe one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ecannot love God whom he has not seen. 21And athis commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God bshould love his brother also.