1 John 4:7-12

Goodspeed(i) 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God's love for us has been revealed in this way—that God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. 10 The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.