⁸ He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

¹⁶ We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

⁵ This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

¹¹ Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹⁵ But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

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

⁵ For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; Abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

⁶ Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

⁹ He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

⁴ One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

⁶ Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

⁵⁵ You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.