1 John 4:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 And 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.
  • Luke 7:47 : 47 And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another. 4 But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,
  • John 3:16 : 16 For 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.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
  • Eph 2:3-5 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest. 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death; 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

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    6 We 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.

    7 My 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.

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

    9 And 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.

    10 And 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.

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

    12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

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

  • 1 John 4:15-18
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    15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

    16 And 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.

    17 In 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.

    18 There 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.

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    20 If 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?

    21 And 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.

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    14 We 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.

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    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.

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

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    1 Everyone 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.

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

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

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    1 See 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.

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

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

    19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

  • 1 John 3:21-24
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    21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

    22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

    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.

    24 He 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.

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

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    5 But 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:

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    4 Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

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    9 But 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;

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    5 And 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.

    6 And 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.

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    22 And 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:

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    11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

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    37 But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

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    27 For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.

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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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    3 We 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:

    4 And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

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    3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

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    4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

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

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

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    18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

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    4 Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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    10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.