1 John 4:7

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who does righteousness has been born of Him.

Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

God Is Love