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16 And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 In this the divine love has been made perfect in us, that we may have boldness in the day of the judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in divine love; but perfect divine love casts out the fear: because the fear has torment; and the one fearing has not been made perfect in the divine love. 19 Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love. 20 If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love. 21 And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love. 1 John 4:16-21, Godbey New Testament. Public domain.
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