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Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of 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.

By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His own Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son as the Savior of the World. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.

We love, because He first loved us.
(I John 4:7-19)

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We love HIM, because He first loved us. - I John 4:19 (KJV)

We love, because He first loved us.
(I John 4:7-19)

The "us", there, is the Elect.

Psalm 5
"For You hate the workers of iniquity."

Now tell me that God loves everyone unconditionally without exception, and you are doing nothing more than reading into God's Word your own subjective feelings.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of 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.
By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His own Spirit.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son as the Savior of the World. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment because as He is so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.
We love, because He first loved us.

(I John 4:7-19)

< Do you know that you have misquoted this scripture to make it say what you want it to say?

It actually tells us that it is God that initiates our love for Him, we do not self generate it

1Jo 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

(A good Calvinist proof text:>)

When you are reading the word there are several things that are important to remember . All texts are not to be applied generally as you are trying to do here.

This is a letter from John to a saved people. Probably to the church at Ephesus

It is not a call to love all men , even God does not love all men (provable in scripture)

It is a call for the Brethren to love one an other as I have tried to show with some highlighting .