1 John 4
"...This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."
We, as humans, never knew or had love in us until God loved us first.
"11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
"Whoever loves God must also love his brother."
In order to understand love, and which we established is from God and is God, we have to love one another.
In order to love one another, we mush "acknowledge" or in ASV, "abides" in him. Both description indicates that it is an action, a respond, to endure in the knowledge of God.
To God be the Glory.
