1 John 4:19

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We love because he loved us first.

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  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 In this is love: not that we have 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 sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; 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 too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • John 3:16 : 16 For this is the way God loved the world: 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 to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
  • Eph 2:3-5 : 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest… 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

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  • 1 John 4:6-13
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    6We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

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

    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

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

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

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

    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 4:15-18
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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

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

    17By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that 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 fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason 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 his great love with which he loved us,

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

    19And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

  • 1 John 3:21-24
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    21Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

    22and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

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

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

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

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • Eph 1:4
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    4For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    5Warning Against False Teachers But now I ask you, lady(not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

    6(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So 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 someone loves God, he is known by God.

  • Rom 8:37
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    37No, in all these things we have complete victory 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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    3What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

    4Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are from God, little children, and have conquered 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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    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

  • John 15:12
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    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • John 13:35
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    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • Jas 1:18
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    18By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

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

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