<p class="bodytext">Dear friends, if God so loved us, then<n id="1" /> we also ought to love one another.<n id="2" />

We love<n id="1" /> because he loved us first.p>

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous,<n id="1" /> forgiving<n id="2" /> us our sins and cleansing<n id="3" /> 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<n id="1" /> us from all sin.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that<n id="1" /> we should be called God&#8217;s children &#8211; and indeed<n id="2" /> we are!<n id="3" /> For this reason<n id="4" /> the world does not know us: because it did not know him.<n id="5" />

In this<n id="1" /> is love: not that<n id="2" /> we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice<n id="3" /> for our sins.p>