1 John 4:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀγαπητοί, εἰ οὕτως ὁ Θεὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν.

Transliteration

Agapētoi, if houtōs the Theos ēgapēsen us, also hēmeis opheilomen allēlous agapan.

Grammar Details

• *Agapētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - beloved ones
• *houtōs*: adverb - thus/in this way
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *ēgapēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - he loved
• *hēmeis*: nominative, plural - we
• *opheilomen*: present active indicative, 1st plural - we ought/we are obligated
• *allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another
• *agapan*: present active infinitive - to love

Word Meanings

• *Agapētoi*: beloved/dear ones
• *houtōs*: thus/in this way/so
• *ēgapēsen*: he loved/he showed love
• *opheilomen*: we ought/we are obligated/we are duty-bound
• *agapan*: to love/to show love

Referenced Verses

• 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 says to him, You wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt, because you besoughtest me: 33 should not you also have had mercy on your fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on you?
• 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 {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso {G302} 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?