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You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
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They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.
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We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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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.