⁸ he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

¹⁶ and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

⁵ And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

¹¹ Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

¹⁵ And Thou, O Lord, `art' God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.

⁷ 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;

⁵ For Thou, Lord, `art' good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

⁶ every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

⁹ he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

⁴ he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

²⁹ for also our God `is' a consuming fire.

⁴ and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

⁶ and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

⁷ keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third `generation', and on a fourth.'

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;

⁵⁵ and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;