Mace(i)
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love.
9 by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him.
10 and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins.
11 beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.
12 no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere.
13 Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit.
14 and we have seen, and do testify, that the father hath sent the son to be the saviour of the world.
15 whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.