004:009 God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him. 004:010 This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 004:011 Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 004:012 No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts. 004:013 We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit. 004:014 And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 004:015 Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God--God continues in union with him, and he continues in union with God. 004:016 And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him. 004:017 Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world. 004:018 Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love. 004:019 We love because God first loved us. 004:020 If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 004:021 And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also. 005:001 Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father loves also Him who is the Father's Child. 005:002 The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children. 005:003 Love for God means obedience to His commands; and His commands are not irksome. 005:004 For every child of God overcomes the world; and the victorious principle which has overcome the world is our faith. 005:005 Who but the man that believes that Jesus is the Son of God overcomes the world? 005:006 Jesus Christ is He who came with water and blood; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit who gives testimony--because the Spirit is the Truth. 005:007 For there are three that give testimony--the Spirit, the water, and the blood; 005:008 and there is complete agreement between these three.