God’s Love and Ours

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another,^(A) for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God^(B) and knows God.^(C)

⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.^(A)

¹¹ Dear friends,^(A) since God so loved us,^(B) we also ought to love one another.^(C)

²⁰ Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister^(A) is a liar.^(B) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,^(C) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.^(D)