1 John 4:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • 1 John 2:5 : 5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
  • 1 John 2:28 : 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 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.
  • 1 John 3:19-21 : 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;
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
  • 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.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Jas 2:22 : 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;
  • 1 Pet 3:16-18 : 16 having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of life in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil. 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • 1 Pet 4:13-14 : 13 But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also you may rejoice with exceeding joy. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
  • Matt 11:22 : 22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
  • Matt 11:24 : 24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."
  • Matt 12:36 : 36 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
  • Matt 10:15 : 15 Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
  • Heb 12:2-3 : 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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    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.

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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.

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

    5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

    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 was God's love 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{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

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

    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.

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    5But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

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

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

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

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

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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.

    2Beloved, 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.

    3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

  • 1 John 1:3-5
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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.

    4And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

    5This 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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    3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

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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.

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    14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

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

  • 1 John 5:20
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    20We 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 5:2-4
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    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.

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

  • John 17:23
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    23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

  • 2 John 1:6
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    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.

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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    15Don'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.

  • 2 Cor 3:4
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    4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

  • 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;

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    10If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  • Rom 5:5
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    5and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

  • Eph 4:15
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    15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;