5. They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
6. We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
7. Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.
12. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us.
13. This is how we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given assurance to us from His Spirit.