1 John 4:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
  • Matt 18:32-33 : 32 Then his lord, after he had called him, said to him, O wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 And he said, He who showed mercy on him. Then Jesus said to him, Go and do likewise.
  • John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  • 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 I speak not by commandment, but as a test of the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.
  • Eph 4:31-5:2 : 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. 1 Be therefore followers of God, as beloved children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Col 3:13 : 13 Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

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  • 1 John 4:12-13
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    12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

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

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.

    16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

    17 In this love has been perfected among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world.

    18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

    19 We love Him because He first loved us.

    20 If someone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

    21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

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

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

    8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

    9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

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

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

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

  • 1 John 3:16-18
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    16 By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23 And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

    24 And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9 But concerning brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

    35 By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them.

    2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.

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

  • John 15:17
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    17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    5 And now I urge you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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

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

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

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also do.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11 Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.

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

  • John 3:16
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    16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    5 But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him: by this we know that we are in him.

    6 He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked.

  • Heb 10:24
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    24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

  • Rom 12:10
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    10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love; in honor giving preference to one another;

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8 And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love will cover a multitude of sins.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all people, just as we do toward you:

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

  • 1 John 1:7
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    7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

  • Eph 4:32
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    32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3 That which 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.