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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, let us love
"You people whom I love, let us love" or "Dear friends, let us love." See how you translated "Beloved" 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/jit/figs-metaphor)