A reading from the First Letter of St John 4: 7-12

Beloved, let us love one another;
for love is from God,
and he who loves is born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God;
for God is love.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us,
that God sent his only Son into the world,
so that we might live through him.

In this is love,
not that we loved God
but that he loved us
and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us,
we also ought to love one another.
No man has ever seen God;
if we love one another,
God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

This is the word of the Lord.

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