1Jo 4:7-21 | ESV | STEP | Beloved , let us love one another , for love is from God , and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God .

7 Beloved, ^alet us love one another, for love is from God, and ^bwhoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 ^cAnyone who does not love does not know God, because ^dGod is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ^eGod sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, ^fnot that we have loved God ^gbut that he loved us and sent his Son to be ^hthe propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 ⁱNo one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and ^jhis love is perfected in us.

13 ^kBy this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And ^lwe have seen and testify that ^mthe Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of ⁿthe world. 15 ^oWhoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So ^pwe have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. ^qGod is love, and ^rwhoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this ^sis love perfected with us, so that ^twe may have confidence for the day of judgment, because ^uas he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but ^vperfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not ^wbeen perfected in love. 19 ^xWe love because he first loved us. 20 ^yIf anyone says, “I love God,” and ^zhates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot ^{▼▼Some manuscripts how can he} love God ^abwhom he has not seen. 21 And ^acthis commandment we have from him: ^adwhoever loves God must also love his brother.