1 John 4:7-21
Love Comes from God
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
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8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
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10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
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11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
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14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
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15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
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16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
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18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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19 We love him, because he first loved us.
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20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
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21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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