^{7 Ref} My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

^{8 Ref} He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

^{9 Ref} And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

^{7 Ref} Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

^{8 Ref} he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

^{9 Ref} In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;