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1 John 4:7-12  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

God Is Love

7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.(A) 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.(B) 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.(C) 11 Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.(D) 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.(E)

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Cross references

  1. 4.7 : 1 Jn 3.10, 11
  2. 4.9 : Jn 3.16; 1 Jn 5.11
  3. 4.10 : Rom 5.8, 10; 1 Jn 2.2
  4. 4.11 : Jn 3.16; 15.12
  5. 4.12 : Jn 1.18; 1 Tim 6.16; 1 Jn 2.5
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