1 John 4:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
  • Lev 19:18 : 18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
  • Matt 22:37-39 : 37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
  • Mark 12:29-33 : 29 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: 30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment. 31 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." 32 The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
  • Luke 10:37 : 37 He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
  • John 15:12 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
  • Rom 12:9-9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. 10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
  • Rom 13:9-9 : 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gal 5:14 : 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We 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.
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
  • Matt 5:43 : 43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:19-20
    2 verses
    89%

    19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

    20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

  • 1 John 4:7-13
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    84%

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

    8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

    9 By 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.

    10 In 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.

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

    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.

    13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 3:10-18
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    81%

    10 In 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.

    11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

    12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

    13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

    14 We 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.

    15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

    16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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

  • 1 John 3:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

    24 He 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.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.

    2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

    3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

  • 1 John 2:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

    10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

    11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16 We 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.

    17 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.

  • John 15:17
    75%

    17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

  • John 15:12
    74%

    12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    74%

    9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    73%

    22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

    35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

    6 This 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.

  • Heb 13:1
    72%

    1 Let brotherly love continue.

  • 1 John 2:3-6
    4 verses
    72%

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

    4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

    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:

    6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
    72%

    7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

  • John 14:21
    71%

    21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

  • 1 Thess 4:6
    71%

    6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
    70%

    3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • Jas 4:11
    70%

    11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

  • Rom 13:10
    70%

    10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

  • Rom 12:10
    70%

    10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

  • Gal 5:14
    70%

    14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • 3 John 1:11
    70%

    11 Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

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