1 John 4:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

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  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
  • Matt 18:32-33 : 32 Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me: 33 Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.
  • John 13:34 : 34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. 13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
  • 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love. 9 For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
  • Eph 4:31-5:2 : 31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts; 32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you. 1 Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children; 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
  • Col 3:13 : 13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers. 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:12-13
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    12No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

    13And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    15Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

    16And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

    17In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

    19We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

    20If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

    21And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

  • 1 John 4:6-10
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    6We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

    8He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

    9And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

    10And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

    11Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

  • 1 John 3:16-18
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    16In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

    17But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

    18My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

  • John 15:12
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    12This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

    24He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

  • John 13:34-35
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    34I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

    35By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

    2In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

    3For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

  • John 15:17
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    17So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    5And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

    6And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

  • Eph 2:4
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    4But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

  • John 15:9
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    9Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

  • John 3:16
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    16For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    5But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

    6He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

  • Heb 10:24
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    24And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

  • Rom 12:10
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    10Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

  • 1 John 3:21
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    21My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

  • 1 John 1:7
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    7But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

  • Eph 4:32
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    32And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ: