7 Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God was revealed ain us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. 

7 Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 

Ἀγαπῶμεν Ἀγαπητοί

Agapētoi Agapōmen

10 In this is love, not that we 

loved God, but that He loved 

us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

That’s propitiation. Substitutionary sacrifice. Substitutionary atonement. Protected from guilt, protected from wrath forever. 

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, 

we also ought to love one another.

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

Homologéō

homoû lógos

John 1

In the beginning was the Word, 

and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God.

In the beginning was the LOGOS, 

and the LOGOS was with God, 

and the LOGOS was God.

He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. 4In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind.

James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed.

Confession is key to communion with God and community with each other!

23 This is His commandment, that 

we believe in the name of His Son 

Jesus Christ, and love one another, 

just as He commanded us.