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1 John 4:8-18

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8 1Anyone who does not love does not know God, because 2God is love.
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that 3God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, 4not that we have loved God 5but that he loved us and sent his Son to be 6the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 7No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and 8his love is perfected in us.
13 9By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 And 10we have seen and testify that 11the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of 12the world.
15 13Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 So 14we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. 15God is love, and 16whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
17 By this 17is love perfected with us, so that 18we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because 19as he is so also are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love, but 20perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not 21been perfected in love.
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Cross References 21

  • 1. 1 John 3:10
  • 2. ver. 16; 2 Corinthians 13:11; [1 John 1:5; John 4:24]
  • 3. See John 3:16
  • 4. Romans 5:8, 10
  • 5. [See ver. 9 above]
  • 6. See 1 John 2:2
  • 7. ver. 20; John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16
  • 8. 1 John 2:5
  • 9. 1 John 3:24
  • 10. 1 John 1:1, 2
  • 11. See John 3:17
  • 12. See 1 John 2:2
  • 13. 1 John 5:5; [Romans 10:9]; See Matthew 14:33
  • 14. John 6:69
  • 15. See ver. 8
  • 16. ver. 12; 1 John 3:24
  • 17. [1 John 2:5]
  • 18. 1 John 2:28; 1 John 3:21
  • 19. [1 John 3:1]
  • 20. [John 3:18; Romans 8:15]
  • 21. [See ver. 17 above]
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