1 John 4:11

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Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.
  • Matt 18:32-33 : 32 Then the master summoned the servant and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me to.' 33 'Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had mercy on you?'
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 The expert in the law replied, 'The one who showed him mercy.' Then Jesus said to him, 'Go and do likewise.'
  • John 13:34 : 34 'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
  • 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.
  • Eph 4:31-5:2 : 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, shouting, and slander be removed from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ. 1 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.
  • Col 3:13 : 13 Bear with one another and forgive one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord forgave you, so also you must forgive.
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:12-13
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    84%

    12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    84%

    15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God.

    16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.

    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.

    19We love because He first loved us.

    20If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates their brother or sister, they are a liar. For the one who does not love their brother or sister whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.

    21And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.

  • 1 John 4:6-10
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    6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

    10In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    81%

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

  • 1 John 3:16-18
    3 verses
    81%

    16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

    17But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

  • John 15:12
    77%

    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    77%

    23Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.

    24The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.

  • 1 John 3:14
    77%

    14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    75%

    9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'

    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    75%

    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.

    2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

  • John 15:17
    75%

    17This is my command: Love one another.

  • 1 John 3:1
    74%

    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I am writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

    6And this is love: that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

  • Eph 2:4
    73%

    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
    73%

    8But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 Thess 5:11
    73%

    11Therefore, encourage one another and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

  • 3 John 1:11
    73%

    11Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

  • John 15:9
    73%

    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.

  • John 3:16
    73%

    16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    72%

    22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    72%

    5But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

    6Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.

  • Heb 10:24
    72%

    24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,

  • Rom 12:10
    72%

    10Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

  • 1 Pet 4:8
    72%

    8Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
    71%

    12And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you.

  • 1 John 3:21
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    21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.

  • 1 John 1:7
    71%

    7But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

  • Eph 4:32
    71%

    32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

  • 1 John 1:3
    70%

    3what we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.