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General Information:
John continues to teach about the new nature. He teaches his readers about God's love and loving one another.
Beloved
"You people whom I love" or "Dear friends." See how you translated this in 1 John 2:7.
let us love one another
"believers are to love other believers"
and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God
"and because those who love their fellow believers have become God's children and know him"
for love is from God
"because God causes us to love each other"
born from God
This is a metaphor which means someone has a relationship to God like a child to his father. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
The person who does not love does not know God, for God is love
The phrase "God is love" a metaphor which means "the character of God is love." AT: "Those who do not love their fellow believers do not know God because the character of God is to love people" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)