1 John 4:7-21
God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
John tells us to love one another...God is LOVE...Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them...This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus...There is no fear in love...But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment...The one who fears is not made perfect in love...And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world...If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God...And so we know and rely on the LOVE God has for us...
Sir Isaac Newton said this about God's LOVE...“Beloved let us love one another for love is of God & every one that loveth is born of God & knoweth God & he that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is LOVE...In this was manifested the LOVE of God towards us because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him...Beloved if God so LOVED us we ought to love one another...No man hath seen God at any time, if we love one another God dwelleth in us....If a man say I love God & hateth his brother he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen?...And this commandment have we that he who loveth God love his brother also.”...