1 John 4:6-12

6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

8Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9In 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.

10In 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.

11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.