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.
14. And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent His Son as the world’s Savior.
15. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God — God remains in him and he in God.