God
Is Love
1
John 4: 7-21
7Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born
of God and knows God.
8The one who does not love does not know God, for God
is love.
9By this the love of God was manifested in us, that
God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through
Him.
10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He
loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another.
12No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another,
God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
13By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us,
because He has given us of His Spirit.
14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent
the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God
abides in him, and he in God.
16We have come to know and have believed the love which
God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God,
and God abides in him.
17By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may
have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in
this world.
18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out
fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected
in love.
19We love, because He first loved us.
20If someone 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, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21And this commandment we have from Him, that the one
who loves God should love his brother also.
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