1 John 4:16

World English Bible (2000)

We 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.

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  • Isa 64:4 : 4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, 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.
  • 1 John 3:24 : 24 He 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 4:8-9 : 8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love. 9 By 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. 10 In 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 Cor 2:9 : 9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."
  • 1 John 4:12-13 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 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.
  • John 6:69 : 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  • Ps 18:1-3 : 1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength. 2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
  • Ps 36:7-9 : 7 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings. 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. 9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.

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    6 We 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.

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

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

    9 By 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 1 John 4:17-21
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    17 In 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.

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

    19 We love him, because he first loved us.

    20 If 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?

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

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    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.

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

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

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    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.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14 We 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 John 5:19-20
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    19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

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    3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1 Behold, 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 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

  • 1 John 3:18-21
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    18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

    20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

    21 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

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

    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. His commandments are not grievous.

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    3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

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    23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

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    6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

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    4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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    13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

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    16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

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    2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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    5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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    20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

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    9 Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

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    3 that 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.

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    2 for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

  • 1 John 5:11
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    11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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

  • 2 John 1:6
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    6 This 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.

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    15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

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    28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

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