God Is Love

1 John 4:7-21

Key Verse 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Read verses 7-8. What does the author urge us to do? (7a) Why? (7b) Why is love closely related with God? (7c) What is true of whoever doesn’t love? (8a)  What is God? (8b, 16b) 

Read verses 9-12. How did God show his love among us? (9) What is love? (10, Romans 5:8) What ought we to do in response of God’s love to us? (11, 1 John 3:16) What happens in us if we love one another? (12)

Read verses 13-16. What do we know through God’s Spirit given to us? (13) What have we seen and what do we testify? (14) What happens in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God? (15) What do we know and what do we rely on? (16a) What is true of  whoever lives in love? (16b)

Read verses 17-18. How is love made complete among us? (17a) What will we have on the day of judgement and why? (17b) Why does love have no fear? (18a) What relationship is there between ‘fear’, ‘punishment’, and ‘love’? (18b)

Read verses 19-21. Why do we love? (19) What is the one who says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother? (20a) Why? (20b) What command has been given to us by Jesus? (21)

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