Knowing God Through Love
7 1 John 3:10, 11, 23Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who 1 Thess. 4:9; (1 John 3:14)loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and (1 John 3:24)he who abides in love abides in God, and God (John 14:23)in him.
19 1 John 4:10We love Him because He first loved us.
Obedience by Faith
20 (1 John 2:4)If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God 1 Pet. 1:8; 1 John 4:12whom he has not seen? 21 And Lev. 19:18; (Matt. 5:43, 44; 22:39); John 13:34this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.