Chapter summary

1 John 4 Summary

1 John 4 declares that ‘God is love,’ calling believers to love one another because God first loved us, and showing that perfect love casts out fear.

John urges testing the spirits and confessing that Jesus came in the flesh. The heart of the chapter is that ‘God is love’ and showed it by sending his Son.

Since God so loved us, we ought to love one another; and his perfect love drives out fear, for ‘we love because he first loved us.’

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1 John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” 1 John 4:19 “We love because He first loved us.”

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