1 John 4:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
  • Lev 19:18 : 18 Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 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;
  • Matt 22:37-39 : 37 And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest rule. 39 And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • Mark 12:29-33 : 29 Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; 30 And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. 31 The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these. 32 And the scribe said to him, Truly, Master, you have well said that he is one, and there is no other but he: 33 And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.
  • John 13:34-35 : 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. 35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
  • John 15:12 : 12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
  • Rom 12:9-9 : 9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good. 10 Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
  • Rom 13:9-9 : 9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. 10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
  • Gal 5:14 : 14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
  • 1 John 3:14 : 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.
  • 1 John 3:18 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
  • Matt 5:43 : 43 You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

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  • 1 John 4:19-20
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    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?

  • 1 John 4:7-13
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    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.

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

    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 3:10-18
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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;

    12Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

    13Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

    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.

    15Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

    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.

  • 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 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.

  • 1 John 2:9-11
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    9He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

    10He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

    11But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    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.

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

  • 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 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;

  • 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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Heb 13:1
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    1Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

  • 1 John 2:3-6
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    3And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

    4The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

    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.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

  • John 14:21
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    21He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

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

  • Jas 4:11
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    11Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

  • Rom 13:10
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    10Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

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

  • Gal 5:14
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    14For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • 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.