4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because ¹  love is from God, and everyone who loves ²  has been fathered ³  by God and knows God. 4:8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁴  4:9 By this ⁵  the love of God ⁶  is revealed in us: ⁷  that God has sent his one and only ⁸  Son into the world so that we may live through him. 4:10 In this ⁹  is love: not that ¹⁰  we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice ¹¹  for our sins.