But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him.

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

Loving One Another

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.

We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

Faith in the Son of God

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.