Study Desk

^(C1)Beloved, let's ^(C2)love one another; for love is from God, and ^(C3)everyone who loves has been ^(C4)born of God and ^(C5)knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, because ^(C1)God is love.

By this the love of God was revealed ^(F1)(C1)in us, that ^(C2)God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him.

In this is love, ^(C1)not that we loved God, but that ^(C2)He loved us and sent His Son to be ^(C3)the ^(F1)propitiation for our sins.

^(C1)Beloved, if God so loved us, ^(C2)we also ought to love one another.

^(C1)No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His ^(C2)love is perfected in us.

^(C1)By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit.

We have seen and ^(C1)testify that the Father has ^(C2)sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

^(C1)Whoever confesses that ^(C2)Jesus is the Son of God, God ^(C3)remains in him, and he in God.

^(C1)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has ^(F1)(C2)for us. ^(C3)God is love, and the one who ^(C4)remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

By this, ^(C1)love is perfected with us, so that we may have ^(C2)confidence in ^(C3)the day of judgment; because ^(C4)as He is, we also are in this world.

There is no fear in love, but ^(C1)perfect love drives out fear, because fear ^(F1)involves punishment, and the one who fears is not ^(C2)perfected in love.

^(C1)We love, because He first loved us.

^(C1)If someone says, "I love God," and yet he ^(C2)hates his brother or sister, he is a ^(C3)liar; for ^(C4)the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, ^(C5)cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

And ^(C1)this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^(C2)must also love his brother and sister.