^{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;

^{10 Ref} in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.