1 John 4:8-13

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

9The love of God was revealed among us by this—that God sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

10This is love—not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.

11Loved ones, 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 made perfect in us.

13We know that we abide in Him and He in us by this—because He has given us of His Spirit.