^{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.

^{12 Ref} No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

^{13 Ref} hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

^{14 Ref} And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son `to be' the Saviour of the world.

^{15 Ref} Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

^{16 Ref} And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.