1 John 4:7-12

⁷  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹  In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰  In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹  Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.