Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
1 John 4.7-21 (TIB; adapted): [1] Beloved, let us love one another because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten of God and has knowledge of God. 8 Those who don’t love have known nothing of God, for God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed in [us] this way: by sending the Only Begotten into the world, so that we [live] through the Anointed One. 10 Love, then, consists in this: not that we have loved God, but that God has loved us and has sent the Only Begotten to be an offering for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God has loved us so, we must have the same love for one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. Yet if we love one another, God dwells in us, and God’s love is brought to perfection in us. 13 The way we know that we remain in God and God in us is that we’ve been given the Spirit. 14 We’ve seen for ourselves and can testify that God has sent the Only Begotten as Savior of the world. 15 When any acknowledge that Jesus is the Only Begotten, God dwells in them and they in God. 16