1 John 4:7-12 (New International Version)
God's Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another,1 for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God2 and knows God.3 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.4 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Sona5 into the world that we might live through him.6 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us7 and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice forb our sins.8 11 Dear friends,9 since God so loved us,10 we also ought to love one another.11 12 No one has ever seen God;12 but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.13Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version)
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a.
1 John 4:9 - Or "his only begotten Son"
b.
1 John 4:10 - Or "as the one who would turn aside his wrath, taking away"
4.
1 John 4:8 - ver 7,16