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1 John 4:7–12: Devotionals and Reflections

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

1 John 4:7–12World English Bible

1 John 4:7–12 connects love for one another with God’s sending of his Son and urges believers to love one another.

Devotionals connected to this passage

  • 1 John 4:8

    Love and Knowing God

    John’s words are brief, but they leave little room for separating our life with God from the way we treat people. The verse does not describe love as an optional extra for especially warmhearted belie

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