1 John 4:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

We love, {G25} {G846} because he first loved us.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

1 John 4:10 : 10 Herein {G5129} is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
Luke 7:47 : 47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, [the same] loveth little.
Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 15:16 : 16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that {G5100} whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Eph 2:3-5 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: — 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that {G1487} one died for all, therefore {G599} all died; 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Similar Verses (AI)

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1 John 4:6-13
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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 {G5129} 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 {G5129} is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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 {G5129} we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:15-18
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15Whosoever {G302} 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 {G5129} is {G3326} {G2257} 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.
1 John 4:20-21
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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, {G4459} 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 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 {G80} abideth in death.
1 John 3:16
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16Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:11
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11For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
1 John 5:1-3
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1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever {G3588} loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2Hereby {G5129} 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.
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.
Eph 2:4
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4but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
1 John 3:18-19
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18[ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
19{G2532} Hereby {G5129} shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
1 John 3:21-24
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21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;
22and whatsoever {G1437} we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
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 {G5129} we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave 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 John 2:5
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5but whoso {G302} keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
Eph 1:4
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4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
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;
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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.
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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 {G2513} heart fervently:
2 Cor 11:11
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11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
1 Cor 8:3
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3but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
Rom 8:37
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1 John 2:15
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1 John 1:3-4
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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:
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3And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 John 4:4
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4Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
John 15:9
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9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.
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John 13:35
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10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.