1 John 4:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

We love Him 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 propitiation for our sins.
  • Luke 7:47 : 47 Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same 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 also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • John 3:16 : 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.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He may give it to you.
  • Eph 2:3-5 : 3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died: 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

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  • 1 John 4:6-13
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    6We 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.

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

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

    9In 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.

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

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

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because 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 dwells in him, and he in God.

    16And 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.

    17In 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.

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

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20If 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?

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

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We 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 John 3:16
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    16By 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.

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

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

    2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep 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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    1Behold, 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.

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

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

    19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

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

    22And whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

    23And 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.

    24And 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.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God demonstrates His love toward 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 the love of God is perfected in him: by this we know that we are in him.

  • Eph 1:4
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    4According as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning brotherly love, you do not need that I 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 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.

    6And 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.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Since 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,

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

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

  • Rom 8:37
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    37Yet 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 him.

  • 1 John 1:3-4
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    3That 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.

    4And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

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

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

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

  • John 13:35
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    35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

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

  • 2 Cor 1:4
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    4Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.