1 John 4:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
  • 1 John 4:20-5:1 : 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 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
  • 1 John 2:10 : 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, 10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing 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 3:10-23 : 10 In 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. 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 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. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 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? 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; 22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 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.
  • 1 John 4:12 : 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.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
  • John 17:3 : 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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  • 1 John 4:8-13
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    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 4:15-21
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    15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

    16 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.

    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 5:1-4
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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.

    4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

  • 1 John 4:6
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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.

  • 1 John 3:14-16
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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.

    15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

    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 3:9-11
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    9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

    10 In 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.

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

  • 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 Cor 8:3
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    3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

  • 1 John 2:5
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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:

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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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,

  • 1 John 4:2
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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,

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

  • 1 John 5:18-20
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    18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

    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.

  • 1 John 4:4
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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.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 Seeing 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 3:23-24
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    72%

    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 Thess 1:4
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    4 We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    5 Now 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.

    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.

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

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11 Beloved, 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.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
    71%

    7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

  • John 3:16
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    16 For 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.

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