1. The Source of Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7-8 (ESV)
2. The Manifestation of Love
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 (ESV)
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness . . . Romans 3:25 (ESV)
2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:2 (ESV)
3. The Perfection of Love
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:11-12 (ESV)
26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26 (ESV)
20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” Exodus 33:20 (ESV)
16 . . . who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see . . .
1 Timothy 6:16 (ESV)