1 John 4:4-14

4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one [who is] in you is greater than the one [who is] in the world.
5 They are from the world; {therefore} they speak from the world and the world listens to them.
6 We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

God’s Love Revealed

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.
10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son [to be the] propitiation for our sins.
11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son [to be the] Savior of the world.

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Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Literally "because of this"
  • [b]. Or "expiation"; or "atoning sacrifice"
  • [c]. Or "because"
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