²⁷ No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me^(A) and have believed that I came from God.^(B)

3 See what great love^(A) the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!^(B) And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.^(C)

³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”^(A)

¹² No one has ever seen God;^(A) but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.^(B)

¹³ This is how we know^(C) that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.^{(D) 14} And we have seen and testify^(E) that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.^{(F) 15} If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,^(G) God lives in them and they in God.^{(H) 16} And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.^(I) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.^(J)

¹⁴ And over all these virtues put on love,^(A) which binds them all together in perfect unity.^(B)

³ We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard,^(A) so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.^(B)

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who called you^(A) to his eternal glory^(B) in Christ, after you have suffered a little while,^(C) will himself restore you and make you strong,^(D) firm and steadfast.