1 John 4:7-12

God Is Love

7 Beloved, ¹let us love one another, for love is from God, and ²whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

8 ³Anyone who does not love does not know God, because ⁴God is love.

9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ⁵God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

10 In this is love, ⁶not that we have loved God ⁷but that he loved us and sent his Son to be ⁸the propitiation for our sins.

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

12 ⁹No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and ¹⁰his love is perfected in us.

Cross References

• 1. 4:7 ch. 3:11
• 2. 4:7 ch. 2:29
• 3. 4:8 ch. 3:10
• 4. 4:8 ver. 16; 2 Cor. 13:11; [ch. 1:5; John 4:24]
• 5. 4:9 See John 3:16
• 6. 4:10 Rom. 5:8, 10
• 7. 4:10 [See ver. 9 above]
• 8. 4:10 See ch. 2:2
• 9. 4:12 ver. 20; John 1:18; 1 Tim. 6:16
• 10. 4:12 ch. 2:5