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.

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  • 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:8-13
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    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 4:15-21
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    83%

    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.

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

    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 John 5:1-4
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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.

    4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

  • 1 John 4:6
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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.

  • 1 John 3:14-16
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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.

    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.

  • 1 John 3:9-11
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    9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

    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;

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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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.

    2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

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

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

  • 1 John 2:5
    74%

    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:

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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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 4:2
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    2 By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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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;

  • 1 John 5:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18 We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

    19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

    20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:4
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    72%

    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 3:23-24
    2 verses
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    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.

  • 1 Thess 1:4
    71%

    4 Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • John 13:35
    71%

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

  • 1 John 2:15
    71%

    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.

  • 1 John 2:3
    71%

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

  • 3 John 1:11
    71%

    11 My 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.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
    71%

    7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

  • John 3:16
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    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.

  • Eph 2:4
    70%

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