¹⁴The Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. We have seen it. We give witness to it. ¹⁵God lives in anyone who agrees that Jesus is the Son of God. That kind of person remains joined to God. ¹⁶So we know that God loves us. We depend on it.

God is love. Anyone who leads a life of love shows that he is joined to God. And God is joined to him.

¹⁷So love is made complete among us. We will be bold on the day God judges us. That’s because in this world we love as Jesus did.

¹⁸There is no fear in love. Instead, perfect love drives fear away. Fear has to do with being punished. The one who fears does not have perfect love.

¹⁹We love because he loved us first. ²⁰Anyone who says he loves God but in fact hates his brother or sister is a liar. He doesn’t love his brother or sister, whom he has seen. So he can’t love God, whom he has not seen.

²¹Here is the command God has given us. Anyone who loves God must also love his brothers and sisters.

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1 John 4:13: By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.