1 John 4:7-15

Christian Standard Bible

Knowing God through Love

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God^(A) and knows God. ⁸ The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ God’s love was revealed among us^[a] in this way: God sent^(B) his one and only Son^(C) into the world so that we might live^(D) through him. ¹⁰ Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us^(E) and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice^[b](F) for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.^{(G) 12} No one has ever seen God.^(H) If we love one another, God remains in^[c] us and his love is made complete in us. ¹³ This is how we know that we remain in him^(I) and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.^{(J) 14} And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son^(K) as the world’s Savior. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses^(L) that Jesus is the Son of God—God remains in him and he in God.