Knowing God through Love
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God 4:7 1Jn 2:29 and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 19 We love 4:19 Other mss add him because he first loved us. 4:19 2Th 2:1320 If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother or sister, 4:20 1Jn 2:9,11; 3:15 he is a liar. 4:20 1Jn 1:10 For the person who does not love his brother or sister 4:20 1Jn 2:10; 3:10,14–17 whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 4:20 Other mss read has seen, how is he able to love . . . seen? (as a question)21 And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.