4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because 1 love is from God, and everyone who loves 2 has been fathered 3 by God and knows God. 4:8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 4 4:9 By this 5 the love of God 6 is revealed in us: 7 that God has sent his one and only 8 Son into the world so that we may live through him. 4:10 In this 9 is love: not that 10 we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice 11 for our sins.
4:11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then 12 we also ought to love one another. 13
4:20 If anyone says 15 “I love God” and yet 16 hates his fellow Christian, 17 he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian 18 whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 19 4:21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that 20 the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian 21 too.