We must love each other. God shows us what real love is.

1 John 4:7-11

7 Dear friends, we must love each other, because God enables us to love each other, and because those who love their fellow believers have become God’s children and ◄know/have a close relationship with► him. 8 God’s nature is to love all people. So those who do not love their fellow believers do not ◄know/have a relationship with► God. 9 I will tell you how God has shown us that he loves us: He sent ◄his only Son/the only one who was also God► to live on the earth to enable us to live eternally as a result of our trusting in what he accomplished for us by dying for us. 10 And God has shown us what it means to love another person: It does not mean that we loved God, but it means that God loved us and sent ◄his Son/the one who was also God► to sacrifice his life in order that our sins might be forgiven {he might forgive our sins}. 11 Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!