1 John 4:7-12

7Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

8The person who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love.

9God has shown us his love by sending his only Son into the world so that we could have life through him.

10This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the payment for our sins.

11Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love each other.

12No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.