Tag: mature love
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First John 5:1-4: God is Love

Mature Love is Expressed through Love for One Another 4:19 We love because He first loved us. 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his fellow believer, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his fellow believer whom he has seen, cannot love the God whom he has not…
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First John 4:13-18: God is Love

The Presence of Mature Loves Provides Assurance of Fellowship 4:13 This is how we know that we abide in Him and He abides in us, by virtue of His Spirit whom He has given to us. 4:14 We have seen and we testify that the Father sent the Son as the world’s Savior. 4:15 Whoever…
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First John 4:9-12: God is Love

God’s Love was Revealed in Jesus Christ and is Expressed Through Us 4:9 And this is how the love of God was revealed among us: God has sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 4:10 This is love: Not that we have loved God, but that…
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First John 2:3-6: God is Light

Walking in the Darkness vs. Walking in the Light 2:3 Now the way we know that we know ˹God˺ is if we keep His commandments. 2:4 The one who says, “I know Him,” while not keeping His commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in this person. 2:5 But whoever keeps ˹Christ’s˺ word,…
