God Is Love
7 Beloved, ch. 3:11let us love one another, for love is from God, and ch. 2:29whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 ch. 3:10Anyone who does not love does not know God, because ver. 16;2 Cor. 13:11;[ch. 1:5;John 4:24]God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that See John 3:16God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, Rom. 5:8,10not that we have loved God [See ver. 9above] but that he loved us and sent his Son to be See ch. 2:2the propitiation for our sins.
16 So John 6:69we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. See ver. 8God is love, and ver. 12;ch. 3:24whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 19 ver. 10We love because he first loved us.