1 John 4:7-11 Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God. ⁸ He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love. ⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really.