1 John 4:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 in 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.
  • Luke 7:47 : 47 therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another; 4 and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • John 3:16 : 16 for 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.
  • John 15:16 : 16 `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
  • Eph 2:3-5 : 3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others, 4 and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:6-13
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    83%

    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.

    11Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

    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 4:15-18
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    80%

    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;

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    80%

    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 3:14
    78%

    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 John 3:16
    78%

    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;

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    74%

    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;

  • 1 John 3:1
    73%

    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;

  • Eph 2:4
    73%

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

  • 1 John 3:18-19
    2 verses
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    18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

    19and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

  • 1 John 3:21-24
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    72%

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

    22and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

    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.

  • Rom 5:8
    72%

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

  • 1 John 2:5
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    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.

  • Eph 1:4
    71%

    4according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    71%

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

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    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,

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    71%

    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,

  • 2 Cor 11:11
    70%

    11wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

  • 1 Cor 8:3
    70%

    3and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

  • Rom 8:37
    70%

    37but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;

  • John 16:27
    69%

    27for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 John 1:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    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;

    4and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

  • 1 John 2:3
    69%

    3and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

  • 1 John 4:4
    69%

    4Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who `is' in you, than he who is in the world.

  • John 15:9
    69%

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

  • John 15:12
    69%

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

  • John 13:35
    68%

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

  • Jas 1:18
    68%

    18having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

  • 2 Cor 1:4
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    4who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.