^{7 Ref} Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

^{8 Ref} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

^{9 Ref} Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

^{10 Ref} Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son `to be' the propitiation for our sins.

^{11 Ref} Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.