Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever
loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not
love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of
God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into
the world, so that we might live through him. 10 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. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love
one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has
given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father
has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses
that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So
we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God
abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may
have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are
we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out
fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not
been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:7-19 ESV
