Loving God
In this is love, not that we love,
But He loved us and sent His Son;
Propitiation from above,
For all of us to be as one.
Beloved, if God has so loved us,
We ought to love one another;
Since God has been unseen as thus,
Treat them as sister and brother.
Because no one has ever seen,
Simply God still abides within;
For the love of Him, that has been,
Perfected for cleansing the sin.
In Him, we know that we abide,
He has given us His Spirit;
We have confessed and He replied,
With salvation to inherit.
We have seen and do testify,
That He looked on us with favor;
And decided to rectify,
Sent His Son as our Savior.
If you confess Jesus as Lord,
And being as the Son of God;
Then they will dwell in one accord,
Are willing to honor and laud.
So we come to know and believe,
About the love God has for us;
Eternal life they will receive,
For His love that abides in us.
By this is love been made perfect,
So that we may have confidence;
On Judgment Day not to reject,
Jesus to be our defense.
There is not any fear in love,
For perfect love will cast it out;
Fear has punishment thereof,
Which is always be causing doubt.
If you say that you love the Lord,
But you are hating your brother;
You lie and not in one accord,
You are deceiving another.
Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer
About this poem
God Is Love 1 John 4:10–21
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Written on February 17, 2022
Submitted by richards.77936 on February 16, 2022
Modified on April 22, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,299 |
Words | 303 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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