4:4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, 8 because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 4:5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them. 4:6 We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but 9 whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this 10 we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. 11
4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because 12 love is from God, and everyone who loves 13 has been fathered 14 by God and knows God. 4:8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 15 4:9 By this 16 the love of God 17 is revealed in us: 18 that God has sent his one and only 19 Son into the world so that we may live through him. 4:10 In this 20 is love: not that 21 we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice 22 for our sins.
4:11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then 23 we also ought to love one another. 24 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. 25 If we love one another, God resides 26 in us, and his love is perfected in us. 27 4:13 By this 28 we know that we reside in God 29 and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit. 30 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior 31 of the world.
4:15 If anyone 32 confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides 33 in him and he in God. 4:16 And we have come to know and to believe 34 the love that God has in us. 35 God is love, and the one who resides 36 in love resides in God, and God resides in him. 4:17 By this 37 love is perfected with 38 us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus 39 is, so also are we in this world. 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 40 The 41 one who fears punishment 42 has not been perfected in love. 4:19 We love 43 because he loved us first.
4:20 If anyone says 44 “I love God” and yet 45 hates his fellow Christian, 46 he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian 47 whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 48 4:21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that 49 the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian 50 too.