1 John 4:7-12

New Century Version

Love Comes from God

⁷ Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his one and only Son into the world so that we could have life through him. ¹⁰ This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God’s love for us. He sent his Son to die in our place to take away our sins.

¹¹ Dear friends, if God loved us that much we also should love each other. ¹² No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect in us.