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1 John 4:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child. And so everyone who loves knows God.

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If we say we love God but hate any of our brothers or sisters in his family, we are liars. If we don’t love someone we have seen, how can we love God? We have never even seen him.

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

You have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now you can have true love for your brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply—with all your heart.

Those who love their brothers and sisters live in the light, and there is nothing in them that will make them do wrong.

But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person’s life is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

The Spirit God gave us does not make us afraid. His Spirit is a source of power and love and self-control.

No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us. If we love each other, God’s love has reached its goal—it is made perfect in us.

You know that Christ always did what was right. So you know that all those who do what is right are God’s children.

And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.

God once said, “Let light shine out of the darkness!” And this is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts to let us know that his own divine greatness is seen in the face of Christ.

The Lord your God will make you and your descendants want to obey him. Then you will love the Lord your God with all your heart. And you will live!

But now you know the true God. Really, though, it is God who knows you. So why do you turn back to the same kind of weak and useless rules you followed before? Do you want to be slaves to those things again?

“I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other just as I loved you.

But whoever loves God is known by God.

If we obey what God has told us to do, then we are sure that we know him.

If we say we know God but do not obey his commands, we are lying. The truth is not in us.

My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you have had since the beginning. This command is the teaching you have already heard.

Those who are God’s children do not continue to sin, because the new life God gave them stays in them. They cannot keep sinning, because they have become children of God.

That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other.

So we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Everyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them.

The people who believe that Jesus is the Messiah are God’s children. Anyone who loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

And now, dear lady, I tell you: We should all love each other. This is not a new command. It is the same command we had from the beginning.




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