1 John 4:4-12

Darby Translation

⁴ *Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.

⁵ *They* are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.

⁶ *We* are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

⁸ He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

⁹ Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

¹¹ Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

¹² No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.