1 John 4:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
  • Lev 19:18 : 18 `Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I `am' Jehovah.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
  • Matt 22:37-39 : 37 And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding -- 38 this is a first and great command; 39 and the second `is' like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;
  • Mark 12:29-33 : 29 and Jesus answered him -- `The first of all the commands `is', Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one; 30 and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength -- this `is' the first command; 31 and the second `is' like `it', this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; -- greater than these there is no other command.' 32 And the scribe said to him, `Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He; 33 and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'
  • 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 13:34-35 : 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; 35 in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'
  • John 15:12 : 12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
  • Rom 12:9-9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; 10 in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;
  • Rom 13:9-9 : 9 for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;' 10 the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, `is' the fulness of law.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
  • Gal 5:14 : 14 for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 we -- 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 3:18 : 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
  • 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,
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
  • Matt 5:43 : 43 `Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and shalt hate thine enemy;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:19-20
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    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?

  • 1 John 4:7-13
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    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 3:10-18
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    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,

    12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

    13Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

    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.

    15Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

    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!

  • 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 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;

  • 1 John 2:9-11
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    9he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

    10he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

    11and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    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;

  • John 15:17
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    17`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

  • John 15:12
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    12`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    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,

  • 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.'

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    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,

  • Heb 13:1
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    1Let brotherly love remain;

  • 1 John 2:3-6
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    3and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

    4he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

    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.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

  • John 14:21
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    21he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

  • Jas 4:11
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    11Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

  • Rom 13:10
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    10the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, `is' the fulness of law.

  • Rom 12:10
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    10in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

  • Gal 5:14
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    14for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'

  • 3 John 1:11
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    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;