^{7 Ref} Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

^{8 Ref} He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

^{9 Ref} By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

^{10 Ref} In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

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

^{12 Ref} No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.