1 John 4:7-11

7Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

10Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

11Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.