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These people belong to the world. That's why they speak the thoughts of the world, and the world listens to them.
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We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever doesn't belong to God doesn't listen to us. That's how we can tell the Spirit of truth from the spirit of lies.
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Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
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The person who doesn't love doesn't know God, because God is love.
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God has shown us his love by sending his only Son into the world so that we could have life through him.