8. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9. How did God show his love for us? He sent his one and only Son into the world. He sent him so we could receive life through him.
10. What is love? It is not that we loved God. It is that he loved us and sent his Son to give his life to pay for our sins.
11. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we should also love one another.
12. No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God lives in us. His love is made complete in us.
13. We know that we belong to him and he belongs to us. He has given us his Holy Spirit.
14. The Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. We have seen it. We give witness to it.
15. God lives in anyone who agrees that Jesus is the Son of God. That kind of person remains joined to God.