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1 John 4:10-21

10In this is love, 1not that we loved God, but that 2He loved us and sent His Son to be 3the 4propitiation for our sins. 115Beloved, if God so loved us, 6we also ought to love one another. 127No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His 8love is perfected in us. 139By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit. 14We have seen and 10testify that the Father has 11sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

1512Whoever confesses that 13Jesus is the Son of God, God 14remains in him, and he in God. 1615We have come to know and have believed the love which God has 1617for us. 18God is love, and the one who 19remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 17By this, 20love is perfected with us, so that we may have 21confidence in 22the day of judgment; because 23as He is, we also are in this world. 18There is no fear in love, but 24perfect love drives out fear, because fear 25involves punishment, and the one who fears is not 26perfected in love. 1927We love, because He first loved us. 2028If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he 29hates his brother or sister, he is a 30liar; for 31the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, 32cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And 33this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God 34must also love his brother and sister.

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  1. 1. 1 John 4:10 Rom 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19 ↩
  2. 2. 1 John 4:10 John 3:16f; 1 John 4:9; 5:11 ↩
  3. 3. 1 John 4:10 1 John 2:2 ↩
  4. 4. 1 John 4:10 I.e., means of reconciliation with God by atoning for sins; or sin-offering ↩
  5. 5. 1 John 4:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
  6. 6. 1 John 4:11 1 John 4:7 ↩
  7. 7. 1 John 4:12 John 1:18; 1 Tim 6:16; 1 John 4:20 ↩
  8. 8. 1 John 4:12 1 John 2:5; 4:17f ↩
  9. 9. 1 John 4:13 Rom 8:9; 1 John 3:24 ↩
  10. 10. 1 John 4:14 John 15:27; 1 John 1:2 ↩
  11. 11. 1 John 4:14 John 3:17; 4:42; 1 John 2:2 ↩
  12. 12. 1 John 4:15 1 John 2:23 ↩
  13. 13. 1 John 4:15 Rom 10:9; 1 John 3:23; 4:2; 5:1, 5 ↩
  14. 14. 1 John 4:15 1 John 2:24; 3:24 ↩
  15. 15. 1 John 4:16 John 6:69 ↩
  16. 16. 1 John 4:16 Lit in ↩
  17. 17. 1 John 4:16 John 9:3; 1 John 4:9 ↩
  18. 18. 1 John 4:16 1 John 4:7, 8 ↩
  19. 19. 1 John 4:16 1 John 4:12f ↩
  20. 20. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:5; 4:12 ↩
  21. 21. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:28 ↩
  22. 22. 1 John 4:17 Matt 10:15 ↩
  23. 23. 1 John 4:17 John 17:22; 1 John 2:6; 3:1, 7, 16 ↩
  24. 24. 1 John 4:18 Rom 8:15 ↩
  25. 25. 1 John 4:18 Lit has ↩
  26. 26. 1 John 4:18 1 John 4:12 ↩
  27. 27. 1 John 4:19 1 John 4:10 ↩
  28. 28. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6, 8, 10; 2:4 ↩
  29. 29. 1 John 4:20 1 John 2:9, 11 ↩
  30. 30. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6 ↩
  31. 31. 1 John 4:20 1 John 3:17 ↩
  32. 32. 1 John 4:20 1 Pet 1:8; 1 John 4:12 ↩
  33. 33. 1 John 4:21 Lev 19:18; Matt 5:43f; 22:37ff; John 13:34 ↩
  34. 34. 1 John 4:21 1 John 3:11 ↩

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