1 John 4:11

American Standard Version (1901)

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
  • Matt 18:32-33 : 32 Then his lord called him unto him, and saith to him, Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest me: 33 shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 And he said, He that showed mercy on him. And Jesus said unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
  • John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  • 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
  • Eph 4:31-5:2 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you. 1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
  • Col 3:13 : 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:12-13
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    12No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

    13hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

    16And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

    17Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

    19We love, because he first loved us.

    20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

    21And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

  • 1 John 4:6-10
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    6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

    8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

    9Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

    10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    81%

    10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

    11For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

  • 1 John 3:16-18
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    16Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

    17But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

    18[ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

  • John 15:12
    77%

    12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.

    24And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

  • John 13:34-35
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    34A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

    35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

    2Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

  • John 15:17
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    17These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

    6And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

  • Eph 2:4
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    4but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

  • John 15:9
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    9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

  • John 3:16
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    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    5but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:

    6he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

  • Heb 10:24
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    24and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

  • Rom 12:10
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    10In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;

  • 1 John 3:21
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    21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;

  • 1 John 1:7
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    7but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

  • Eph 4:32
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    32and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ: