4. My dear children, you belong to God. So you have defeated them because God’s Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world.
5. And they belong to the world. What they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
6. But we are from God, and those who know God listen to us. But those who are not from God do not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit that is true and the spirit that is false.
7. Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. The person who loves has become God’s child and knows God.
8. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9. This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him.
10. True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God. God sent his Son to die in our place to take away our sins.