1 John 4:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀγαπητοί, ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους: ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν· καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ γεγέννηται, καὶ γινώσκει τὸν Θεόν.

Transliteration

Agapētoi, agapōmen allēlous: because the agapē from the Theou estin; and everyone agapōn from the Theou gegennētai, and ginōskei the Theon.

Grammar Details

• *Agapētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - beloved ones
• *agapōmen*: present subjunctive, 1st plural - let us love
• *allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another
• *agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *agapōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - loving/one who loves
• *gegennētai*: perfect passive indicative, 3rd singular - has been born
• *ginōskei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - knows
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God

Word Meanings

• *Agapētoi*: beloved/dear ones
• *agapōmen*: let us love/we should love
• *agapē*: love/divine love/selfless love
• *agapōn*: loving/one who loves
• *gegennētai*: has been born/has been begotten
• *ginōskei*: knows/understands/recognizes

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 4:8 : 8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
• 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
• 1 John 4:20-5:1 : 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. 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.
• 1 John 2:10 : 10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
• 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 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; 10 And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 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:
• 1 John 3:10-23 : 10 In 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. 11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another; 12 Not 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. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you. 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. 15 Anyone 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. 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? 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, 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. 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.
• 1 John 4:12 : 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:
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
• 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.
• Deut 30:6 : 6 And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?