1 John 4:7-11 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ God's love for us has been revealed in this way—that God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. ¹⁰ The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.