1 John 4:6–12 · BSB
4:6
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
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4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
4:9
This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
4:10
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
4:12
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
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