1 John 4:7-16

7 Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

8 He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

9 Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

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

12 No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

13 Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

14 And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.

15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

16 And *we* have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Footnotes

• [a] 'In our case,' in respect of us. The idea of the love of God remains absolute: only it has been shown 'as respects us in this,' &c.
• [b] En, 'of which we are the objects;' but it is more than 'towards.'