1 John 4:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Love is the family resemblance of God's children.
Read the full meaning“Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 John 4:7 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- 2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- Galatians 4:9But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
- Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:9Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
- 2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
- 1 Peter 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
- 1 John 2:10Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
- 1 John 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
- 1 John 3:10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
- 1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
- 1 John 4:20If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
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