1 John 4:19

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We love because He first loved us.

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  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 In 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.
  • Luke 7:47 : 47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, as her great love has shown. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.'
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For 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.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
  • Eph 2:3-5 : 3 Among them we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, carrying out the inclinations of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, 5 made us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions—by grace you have been saved.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

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  • 1 John 4:6-13
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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.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    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 4:15-18
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    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.

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    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 3:14
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    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 John 3:16
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    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.

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    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.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    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.

  • Eph 2:4
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    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us,

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

    19By this we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts in His presence.

  • 1 John 3:21-24
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    21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.

    22And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.

    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.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    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.

  • Eph 1:4
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    4just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence in love.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    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.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    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.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

  • Rom 8:37
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    37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

  • John 16:27
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    27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

  • 1 John 1:3-4
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    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.

    4We write these things to you so that your joy may be fully complete.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

  • John 15:9
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    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.

  • John 15:12
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    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

  • John 13:35
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    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • Jas 1:18
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    18By His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

  • 2 Cor 1:4
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    4who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.