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The one who does not love does not know God, because (A)God is love. By this the love of God was manifested [a](B)in us, that (C)God has sent His [b]only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, (D)not that we have loved God, but that (E)He loved us and sent His Son to be (F)the propitiation for our sins.

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  1. 1 John 4:9 Or in our case
  2. 1 John 4:9 Or unique, only one of His kind

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.(A) This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son(B) into the world that we might live through him.(C) 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us(D) and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.(E)

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