1 John 4:8-16

ABU(i) 8 He that loves not, knew not God; because God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God in respect to us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No man has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and the love of him is perfected in us. 13 In 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 bear witness, that the Father has sent forth the Son, a Savior of the world. 15 Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known, and have believed, the love that God has in respect to us. God is love; and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.