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God Is Love: The Source and Command of Love

1 John 4:7-21

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7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been begotten from God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested to us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love in us has been perfected. 13 In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 17 In this love has been perfected with us, so that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because just as he is, so also we are in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. And the one who fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love, because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And we have this commandment from him, that the one who loves God loves his brother also.