1 John 4:11

World English Bible (2000)

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
  • Matt 18:32-33 : 32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me. 33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 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, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
  • 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
  • Eph 4:31-5:2 : 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Col 3:13 : 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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

    13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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

    16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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

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

    19We love him, because he first loved us.

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

    21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • 1 John 4:6-10
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    6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't 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 of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

    8He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

    9By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only 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 as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

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

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

    17But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

    18My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

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

    24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

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

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

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

    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. His commandments are not grievous.

  • John 15:17
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    17"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

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

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

  • Eph 2:4
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    4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

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

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

  • John 15:9
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    9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

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

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    5But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

    6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

  • Heb 10:24
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    24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

  • Rom 12:10
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    10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  • 1 John 3:21
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    21Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

  • 1 John 1:7
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    7But 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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    32And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.