7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
I John 4:7-12
How I love God is DEFINED by how I love OTHERS.
*But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. *
I John 4:8
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
John 13:34
How I love others
No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
I John 4:12
But life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God’s mighty kindness and love.
Acts 20:24 (TLB)