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# General Information:
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John continues to teach about the new nature. He teaches his readers about God's love and loving one another.
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# Beloved, let us love
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"You people whom I love, let us love" or "Dear friends, let us love." See how you translated "Beloved" in [1 John 2:7](../02/07.md).
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# let us love one another
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"believers are to love other believers"
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# and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God
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"and because those who love their fellow believers have become God's children and know him"
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# for love is from God
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"because God causes us to love each other"
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# born from God
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This is a metaphor which means someone has a relationship to God like a child to his father. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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