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7 ) Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God, and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
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8 ) He that loves not knows not God, for God is love.
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9 ) In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
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10 ) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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11 ) Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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12 ) No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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13 ) Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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14 ) And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
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15 ) Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.
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16 ) And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love, and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
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17 ) Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
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18 ) There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
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19 ) We love him, because he first loved us.
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20 ) If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
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21 ) And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.