Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Resumption of the main theme (). Love, the sum of righteousness, is the test of being born of God. Love flows from a sense of God's love. resumes ; resumes . At the same time, 1 John 4:7 are connected with the preceding context, setting forth Christ's incarnation, the great proof of God's love ().

Beloved - appropriate to his subject, "love."

Love. All love is from God, its fountain; especially its great embodiment, God manifest in the flesh. The Father also is love (). The Holy Spirit sheds love as its first-fruit abroad in the heart ().

Knoweth God - spiritually, experimentally, habitually.

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