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9 This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his one and only Son into the world so that we could have life through him.
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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.
10 This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins.
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This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Dear friends, if God loved us that much we also should love each other.
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Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect in us.
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No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 We know that we live in God and he lives in us, because he gave us his Spirit.
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This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
14 We have seen and can testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
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And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has God living inside, and that person lives in God.
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If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
16 And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Those who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
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And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
17 This is how love is made perfect in us: that we can be without fear on the day God judges us, because in this world we are like him.
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This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.
18 Where God's love is, there is no fear, because God's perfect love drives out fear. It is punishment that makes a person fear, so love is not made perfect in the person who fears.
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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because God first loved us.
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We love because he first loved us.
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