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God’s Love and Christian Life. [a]Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

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  1. 4:7–12 Love as we share in it testifies to the nature of God and to his presence in our lives. One who loves shows that one is a child of God and knows God, for God’s very being is love; one without love is without God. The revelation of the nature of God’s love is found in the free gift of his Son to us, so that we may share life with God and be delivered from our sins. The love we have for one another must be of the same sort: authentic, merciful; this unique Christian love is our proof that we know God and can “see” the invisible God.

God Is Love

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.

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God Is Love

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.

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God Is Love

(A)Beloved, let’s (B)love one another; for love is from God, and (C)everyone who loves has been (D)born of God and (E)knows God.

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God’s Love and Ours

Dear friends, let us love one another,(A) for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God(B) and knows God.(C)

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16 We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.

God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.

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16 So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

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16 And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us.

God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.

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16 (A)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has [a](B)for us. (C)God is love, and the one who (D)remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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  1. 1 John 4:16 Lit in

16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(B)

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