God Is Love
7 Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God was revealed 4:9 Or among us; or in our casein us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the 4:10 I.e., means of reconciliation with God by atoning for sins; or sin-offeringpropitiation for our sins.
16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has 4:16 Lit infor us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 19 We love, because He first loved us.