4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because 1 love is from God, and everyone who loves 2 has been fathered 3 by God and knows God. 4:8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 4 4:9 By this 5 the love of God 6 is revealed in us: 7 that God has sent his one and only 8 Son into the world so that we may live through him. 4:10 In this 9 is love: not that 10 we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice 11 for our sins.
4:11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then 12 we also ought to love one another. 13 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. 14 If we love one another, God resides 15 in us, and his love is perfected in us. 16 4:13 By this 17 we know that we reside in God 18 and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit. 19 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior 20 of the world.
4:15 If anyone 21 confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides 22 in him and he in God. 4:16 And we have come to know and to believe 23 the love that God has in us. 24 God is love, and the one who resides 25 in love resides in God, and God resides in him. 4:17 By this 26 love is perfected with 27 us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus 28 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. 29 The 30 one who fears punishment 31 has not been perfected in love. 4:19 We love 32 because he loved us first.
4:20 If anyone says 33 “I love God” and yet 34 hates his fellow Christian, 35 he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian 36 whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 37 4:21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that 38 the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian 39 too.