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 4:9
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.