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 one and only Son into the world so that we could have life through him.
10. This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God’s love for us. He sent his Son to die in our place to take away our sins.
11. Dear friends, if God loved us that much we also should love each other.
12. No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect in us.
13. We know that we live in God and he lives in us, because he gave us his Spirit.