1 John 4:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

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  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
  • Matt 18:32-33 : 32 then having called him, his lord saith to him, Evil servant! all that debt I did forgive thee, seeing thou didst call upon me, 33 did it not behove also thee to have dealt kindly with thy fellow-servant, as I also dealt kindly with thee?
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 and he said, `He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, `Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'
  • John 13:34 : 34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; 13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
  • 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness, 9 for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
  • Eph 4:31-5:2 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, 32 and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you. 1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • Col 3:13 : 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:12-13
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    12God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

    13in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    84%

    15whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;

    16and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

    17In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we -- we also are in this world;

    18fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

    19we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;

    20if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

    21and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

  • 1 John 4:6-10
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    6we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

    7Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

    8he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

    9In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

    10in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
    2 verses
    81%

    10In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

    11because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

  • 1 John 3:16-18
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    16in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

    17and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

    18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

  • John 15:12
    77%

    12`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

    24and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

  • 1 John 3:14
    77%

    14we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    75%

    9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

  • John 13:34-35
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    34`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

    35in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

    2in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

    3for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

  • John 15:17
    75%

    17`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

  • 1 John 3:1
    74%

    1See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

    6and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

  • Eph 2:4
    73%

    4and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
    73%

    8and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

  • 1 Thess 5:11
    73%

    11wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

  • 3 John 1:11
    73%

    11Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

  • John 15:9
    73%

    9According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

  • John 3:16
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    16for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    72%

    22Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

  • 1 John 2:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

    6He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

  • Heb 10:24
    72%

    24and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

  • Rom 12:10
    72%

    10in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

  • 1 Pet 4:8
    72%

    8and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

  • 1 Thess 3:12
    71%

    12and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

  • 1 John 3:21
    71%

    21Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

  • 1 John 1:7
    71%

    7and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

  • Eph 4:32
    71%

    32and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

  • 1 John 1:3
    70%

    3that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship `is' with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;