1 John 4:8-10

God Is Love

⁸ _l Anyone who does not love does not know God, because _m God is love. ⁹ In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that _n God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, _o not that we have loved God _n but that he loved us and sent his Son to be _p the propitiation for our sins.

1. Cross References
   1 John 3:10
   By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
   
2. Cross References
   1 John 4:16
   So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
   2 Corinthians 13:11
   Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
   1 John 1:5
   This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
   John 4:24
   God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
   
3. Cross References
   John 3:16
   For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
   
4. Cross References
   Romans 5:8
   But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
   Romans 5:10
   For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
   
5. Cross References
   1 John 4:9
   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.
   
6. Cross References
   1 John 2:2
   He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.