ISV(i)
8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent his unique Son into the world so that we might live through him.
10 This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 This is how we know that we abide in him and he in us: he has given us his Spirit.
14 We have seen for ourselves and can testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and he abides in God. 16 We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
14 We have seen for ourselves and can testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and he abides in God. 16 We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.