Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another. For love comes from God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

⁸ The one who does not love does not know God. For God is love.

⁹ In this was that love of God revealed amongst us: because God sent His only begotten Son into this world, so that we might live through Him.

¹⁰ In this is that love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a reconciliation for our sins.

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

¹² No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us. And His love is perfected in us.

¹³ By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us: because He has given us of His Spirit.

¹⁴ And we have seen (and do testify) that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God - God dwells in him and he in God.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love. And the one who dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.

¹⁷ In this is that love perfected in us: that we should have boldness on the Day of Judgment. For as He is, even so are we in this world.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love. But perfect love casts out fear. For fear has painfulness. And the one who fears has not been perfected in love.

¹⁹ We love Him because He loved us first.

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For how can one who does not love his brother - whom he has seen - love God, Whom he has not seen?

²¹ And this Commandment we have from Him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.