⁷Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born again because of what God has done. That person knows God. ⁸Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

⁹How did God show his love for us? He sent his one and only Son into the world. He sent him so we could receive life through him.

¹⁰What is love? It is not that we loved God. It is that he loved us and sent his Son to give his life to pay for our sins.

¹¹Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we should also love one another. ¹²No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God lives in us. His love is made complete in us.

¹³We know that we belong to him and he belongs to us. He has given us his Holy Spirit.

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.

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1 John 4:10: In 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.