Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

We love because he loved us first.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

(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.

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.