Chiasm

1 John 4:7–11

1 John 4:7–113 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 7 let us love one another,
- B 7b for love is of God;
  - C 8 God is love.
    - D 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
  - C' 10 In this is love,
- B' 11 if God so loved us,
A' 11b we also ought to love one another.