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but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
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Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
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Do Not Love the World
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
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By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
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Love One Another
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
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We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
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By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
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Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
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And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
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God Is Love
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
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Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
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In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
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So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
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By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
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We love because he first loved us.
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If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
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And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
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Overcoming the World
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.