Now<n id="1" /> this is his commandment:<n id="2" /> that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave<n id="3" /> us the commandment.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Dear friends, let us love one another, because<n id="1" /> love is from God, and everyone who loves<n id="2" /> has been fathered<n id="3" /> by God and knows God.

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>

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.<n id="1" /> The<n id="2" /> one who fears punishment<n id="3" /> has not been perfected in love.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ<n id="1" /> has been fathered<n id="2" /> by God, and everyone who loves the father<n id="3" /> loves the child fathered by him.<n id="4" />

because<n id="1" /> everyone<n id="2" /> who has been fathered by God<n id="3" /> conquers<n id="4" /> the world.<n id="5" />p><t /><p class="bodytext">This<n id="6" /> is the conquering power<n id="7" /> that has conquered<n id="8" /> the world: our faith.

If<n id="1" /> anyone sees his fellow Christian<n id="2" /> committing a sin not resulting in death,<n id="3" /> he should ask, and God<n id="4" /> will grant<n id="5" /> life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death.<n id="6" /> There is a sin resulting in death.<n id="7" /> I do not say that he should ask about that.

And we have come to know and to believe<n id="1" /> the love that God has in us.<n id="2" /> God is love, and the one who resides<n id="3" /> in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

<p class="bodytext">If anyone says<n id="1" /> &#8220;I love God&#8221; and yet<n id="2" /> hates his fellow Christian,<n id="3" /> he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian<n id="4" /> whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.<n id="5" />