1 John 4:8
God is Love
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
John 3:16-20
God's Love
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Acts 4:8-12
Salvation Through Jesus
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 He is
" 'the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone.12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
St. John and St. Peter were two of Jesus' disciples...St. Luke was not a disciple, but he researched and studied about Jesus...Peter and John were both wrote books or epistles about Jesus in the New Testament...St. John even wrote one of the four gospels...They were both eyewitnesses of Jesus and His ministry and His teachings on earth...In the Acts of the Apostles, which was written by St. Luke, we see great acts and writings of the disciples and other apostles...We read about the growth of those following Jesus in the Acts of the Apostles...St. Luke also wrote one of the four gospels about Jesus...St. John and St. Peter were able to be eyewitnesses to the LOVE of Jesus and His healings and His miracles...St. Luke studied and researched Jesus right after His death and found out about His LOVE through others...
St. John writes that God is LOVE...St. John makes it clear in his writings that God is all about LOVE...LOVE originated from God...LOVE comes from God...Whoever does not love others, does not know God...We can love God, because He LOVED us first...Anyone who truly loves God, must also love their brother and sister...If you have ever wondered where love comes from love comes from God, because He Himself is LOVE...God is Perfect LOVE...So we learn much about the LOVE of God by the writings of St. John, who was taught by God's Son, Jesus...
God is LOVE...And St. John is called the Disciple of Love...St. John writes about how God, who is LOVE, shows His LOVE for us and this world...St. John knew the LOVE of Jesus and learned much about love from Him...God shows His LOVE for us and the world by giving His only Son to us...To have a Son, no Your Only Son to die for others is such a sign of LOVE when we really think about it...We realize more about this type of love, if we think how we might feel if our son died for a cause...God's Son died for us, and our sins...Whoever believes in Jesus shall not perish, but have eternal life...For God did not send His Son into this world to condemn us and the sinner and the world...No, He sent His Son to save us, the sinner, and the world...This salvation is from God, who sent His One and Only Son to us and for us -as the atoning sacrifice for our sins...Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name, other than Jesus, under heaven given to man, by which we can or must be saved...
No one has ever seen God, because God is Spirit...We must worship God in truth and spirit...God lives in us, through His Holy Spirit and His love is made complete in us...Whoever has their heart full of love, has God in their lives...Whoever lives their life in love, lives in God, and God lives in them...They are closer to God than those who cannot love...This LOVE from God and His Son's death on the cross for our salvation allows us to have eternal life...We are given an eternal life with the Father and Son...For without the LOVE of the Father, and the Son -life, especially an eternal life, would not be worth living...One is closer, much closer to God, when one believes in God and Jesus and then lives a life with love in it...