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1 John 4:18
The Passion Translation
Love never brings fear, for fear is always related to punishment. But love’s perfection drives the fear of punishment far from our hearts. Whoever walks constantly afraid of punishment has not reached love’s perfection.
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1 John 4:4
Little children, you can be certain that you belong to God and have conquered them, for the One who is living in you is far greater than the one who is in the world.
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1 John 4:19
Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.
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1 John 4:7
Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him.
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1 John 4:8
The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love.
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1 John 4:10
This is love: He loved us long before we loved him. It was his love, not ours. He proved it by sending his Son to be the pleasing sacrificial offering to take away our sins.
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1 John 4:11
Delightfully loved ones, if he loved us with such tremendous love, then “loving one another” should be our way of life!
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1 John 4:9
The light of God’s love shined within us when he sent his matchless Son into the world so that we might live through him.
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1 John 4:20
Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred toward another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or sister, whom you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see?
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1 John 4:15
Those who give thanks that Jesus is the Son of God live in God, and God lives in them.
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1 John 4:21
For he has given us this command: whoever loves God must also demonstrate love to others.
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1 John 4:1-2
Delightfully loved friends, don’t trust every spirit, but carefully examine what they say to determine if they are of God, because many false prophets have mingled into the world. Here’s the test for those with the genuine Spirit of God: they will confess Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh.
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1 John 4:3
Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from God has the spirit of antichrist, which you heard was coming and is already active in the world.
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