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1Jo 4:11 King James Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
God's love to us is the grand motive for our love to one another (Jo1 3:16).

if--as we all admit as a fact.

we . . . also--as being born of God, and therefore resembling our Father who is love. In proportion as we appreciate God's love to us, we love Him and also the brethren, the children (by regeneration) of the same God, the representatives of the unseen God.
 
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16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.