1 John 4:9-14
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.
4:11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
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.
4:13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.
4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.