⁸ He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

¹⁶ And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

⁵ This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

¹¹ Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

⁷ 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.

⁵ You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

⁶ Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

⁹ He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

⁴ The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

²⁹ For our God is an all-burning fire.

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁶ And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

⁷ Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

⁵⁴ Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.

⁵⁵ You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.