Light of Love

Tune: Binchester

('Happy are they, they that love God')

1 John 4 v.7-11

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Beloved sister, beloved brother

Let us love each other

For love is of God and every

One that does love, so be

Is born of God, and does God know

For that their lives do show

And they that love not do not know

God, for He is love so

In this was seen love of God true

To us, even to you

Because He sent His only Son

That we might live, each one

Herein is love, not that we loved

God first, but He encoved {1}

Us, and sent His Son for to be

Sin's propitiation, see {2}

The ransom once for our sins paid

In His life all down laid

Beloved, if God so loved us here

We ought His love to share

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{1} encoved - from 'covenant'

{2} propitiation - dealing with sins mercifully, graciously