s
only Son into the world that through him we might have life. His love is
shown in this, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his
Son to be the sacrifice that made possible the forgiveness of our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another. No
one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, then God lives in us,
and the love which is his is made perfect in us. By this we know that we
shall live in him and he in us, because he has given us a portion of his
own Spirit, and we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent
the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

We ourselves know and believe in the love that God has for us. God is
love, and he whose life is full of love lives in God and God lives in
him. In love there is no fear, but perfect love drives out all fear, for
fear means punishment, and he who fears has not become perfect in love.
We love him because he first loved us.

If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar;
for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God
whom he has not seen. And we have this command from him, that he who
loves God is to love his brother also.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ, is a child of God; and
every one who loves the Father, loves every child of his. We know that
we are his children when we love him and obey his commands, for love for
God means obeying his commands. And his commands are not hard to follow,
for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And our faith is the
power that conquers the world. Who is the conqueror of the world but he
who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Now the confidence that we have in God is this, that he listens to us
whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will. And if we know
that he listens to whatever we ask, we know that we have the things
which we have asked from him.

THE GLORY AND HONOR THAT JESUS HAS WON

John, to the seven churches in the province of Asia. May a blessing be
granted you and peace from him who is and was and ever shall be, and
from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ who is
the faithful witness, the first of the dead to be restored to life and
the ruler of the kings of the earth.

I, John, your brother who shares with you the distress, the dominion,
and the patient endurance which we have through our faith in Jesus,
found myself in the island called Patmos b