1 John 4:18
4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The
one who fears punishment
has not been perfected in love.
1 John 4:8
4:8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 2:5
2:5 But whoever obeys his
word, truly in this person
the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.
1 John 2:15
2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
1 John 4:12
4:12 No one has seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God resides
in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 5:3
5:3 For
this is the love of God:
that we keep his commandments.
And his commandments do not weigh us down,
1 John 4:16
4:16 And we have come to know and to believe
the love that God has in us.
God is love, and the one who resides
in love resides in God, and God resides in 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.
1 John 4:17
4:17 By this
love is perfected with
us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus
is, so also are we in this world.