1 John 4:7-12

God Is Love

7 ¹Beloved, let us ²love one another, for love is from God; and ³everyone who loves is ⁴born of God and ⁵knows God.

8 The one who does not love does not know God, for ⁶God is love.

9 By this the love of God was manifested ⁷in us, that ⁸God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

10 In this is love, ⁹not that we loved God, but that ¹⁰He loved us and sent His Son to be ¹¹the propitiation for our sins.

11 ¹²Beloved, if God so loved us, ¹³we also ought to love one another.

12 ¹⁴No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His ¹⁵love is perfected in us.

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Cross References 15

1. 1 John 2:7
2. 1 John 3:11
3. 1 John 5:1
4. 1 John 2:29
5. 1 Corinthians 8:3; 1 John 2:3
6. 1 John 4:7, 16
7. John 9:3; 1 John 4:16
8. John 3:16; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 5:11
9. Romans 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19
10. John 3:16; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11
11. 1 John 2:2
12. 1 John 2:7
13. 1 John 4:7
14. John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16; 1 John 4:20
15. 1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:17

Footnotes 3

[a]. Or "begotten"
[b]. Or "in our case"
[c]. Or "unique," only one of His kind

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