16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life  * for us.  * We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.  *17 If anyone has this world’s goods  * and sees a fellow believer  * in need  * but withholds compassion  * from him — how does God’s love reside in him?  *18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.  *