1 John 3:1
3:1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
1 John 3:17
3:17 But whoever has the world’s possessions
and sees his fellow Christian
in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God
reside
in such a person?
1 John 4:7
God is Love
4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
1 John 4:9-10
4:9 By this
the love of God
is revealed in us:
that God has sent his one and only
Son into the world so that we may live through him.
4:10 In 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.