1John:4:7-21

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* Beloved , let us love one another ; for love is of God ; and every one that loves us a child of God . * He who does not love , does not know God ; for God is love . * In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us , by his sending his only Son into the world , so that we might live through him . * In this is love , not that we loved God , but that he loved us , and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins . * If God so loved us , beloved , we also ought to love one another . * No man has ever gazed on God ; but if we love one another , God ever abides in us , and his love is perfected in us . * By this we come to know that we are abiding in him , and he in us , because he has given us of his Spirit ; * and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world . * If any man confesses that "Jesus is the Son of God ." God is abiding in that man , and he in God . * And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us . God is love ; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God , and God is abiding in him . * In this is love made perfect with us , so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment , because we are living in this world as He lives . * Fear does not exist in love ; but love , when it is perfect , drives out fear . For fear has always torment , and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love . * We love because He loved us first . * If any one says , "I love God ," and yet hates his brother , he is a liar ; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen , cannot possibly love God , whom he has not seen . * And we have this command from God . HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO .

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