1 John 4:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Beloved, 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;

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  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.
  • 1 John 4:20-5:1 : 20 if 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? 21 and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother. 1 Every 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:
  • 1 John 2:10 : 10 he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 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, 10 for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Your 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 3:10-23 : 10 In 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, 11 because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another, 12 not 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. 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you; 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. 15 Every 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, 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? 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth! 19 and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts, 20 because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, 22 and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do, 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 4:12 : 12 God 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;
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 `And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;
  • John 17:3 : 3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:8-13
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    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 4:15-21
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    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 5:1-4
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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;

    4because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;

  • 1 John 4:6
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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.

  • 1 John 3:14-16
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    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;

  • 1 John 3:9-11
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    9every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

    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 3:1-2
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    77%

    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;

    2beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

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

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

  • 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.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    74%

    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 4:2
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    2in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

  • 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 John 5:18-20
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    18We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

    19we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

    20and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

  • 1 John 4:4
    73%

    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.

  • 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 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 Thess 1:4
    71%

    4having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,

  • 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,

  • John 13:35
    71%

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

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

  • 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;

  • 2 Pet 1:7
    71%

    7and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

  • John 3:16
    71%

    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.

  • Eph 2:4
    70%

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