So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (1 John 4:16)

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (1 John 4:15 RSV)

No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12 RSV)

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:11 RSV)

In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10 RSV)

He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. (1 John 4:8 RSV)

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7 RSV)

Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. (1 John 4:4 RSV)

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God (1 John 4:2 RSV)

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God (1 John 3:21 RSV)