1 John 2:12; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 4:5; 1 John 4:9

1 John 2:12

12 I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.

1 John 3:1

1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 4:5

5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

1 John 4:9

9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.