Jun 4, 2023
1 John 4:7-21
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from
God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows
God.8 Anyone who does not love does not know God,
because God is love. 9 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. 10 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. 11 Beloved, if God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one
has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His
love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us,
because 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 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son
of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 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. 17 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. 18 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.
19 We love because He first loved us. 20 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. 21 And this commandment we have
from Him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Key Words: Love, God, Born, Know, Son, Sent,
Perfected, Abides, Confidence
Keystone Verse: We love because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19