1 John 4:7-11
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God Is Love
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love has not known God, because God is love. 9 This is how God’s love for us was revealed: God has sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us so much, we also should love one another.
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1 John 4:19-21
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19 We love[a] because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For how can anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen,[b] love God, whom he has not seen? 21 This then is the command we have from him: The one who loves God should also love his brother.
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- 1 John 4:19 A few witnesses to the text add God or him.
- 1 John 4:20 A few witnesses to the text read For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God.
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