7. Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.
9. By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.
10. In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
11. My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.
12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.
13. In this we know that we abide 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 his Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.
16. And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.
17. In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.
18. Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.
19. Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.
20. If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?