God Is Love

⁷ Beloved, ^(A)let us love one another, for love is from God, and ^(B)whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ^8 (C)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because ^(D)God is love. ⁹ In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ^(E)God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, ^(F)not that we have loved God ^(G)but that he loved us and sent his Son to be ^(H)the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ^12 (I)No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and ^(J)his love is perfected in us.

^19 (A)We love because he first loved us. ^20 (B)If anyone says, “I love God,” and ^(C)hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot^[a] love God ^(D)whom he has not seen. ²¹ And ^(E)this commandment we have from him: ^(F)whoever loves God must also love his brother.