6 We are from God; whoever knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7 Loved ones, let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 The love of God was revealed among us by this—that God sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10 This is love—not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.
11 Loved ones, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us and His love is made perfect in us.