Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. New Living Translation Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. English Standard Version Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Berean Standard Bible Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Berean Literal Bible Beloved, we should love one another, because love is from God; and everyone loving has been born from God and knows God. King James Bible Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. New King James Version Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. New American Standard Bible Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. NASB 1995 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. NASB 1977 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Legacy Standard Bible Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Amplified Bible Beloved, let us [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves [others] is born of God and knows God [through personal experience]. Christian Standard Bible Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Holman Christian Standard Bible Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. American Standard Version Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. Contemporary English Version My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows we have been given new life. We are now God's children, and we know him. English Revised Version Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. GOD'S WORD® Translation Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. Good News Translation Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. International Standard Version Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. Majority Standard Bible Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. NET Bible Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. New Heart English Bible Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. Webster's Bible Translation Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. Weymouth New Testament Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God. World English Bible Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionBeloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God; Berean Literal Bible Beloved, we should love one another, because love is from God; and everyone loving has been born from God and knows God. Young's Literal Translation 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; Smith's Literal Translation Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleDearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. Catholic Public Domain Version Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. New American Bible Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. New Revised Standard Version Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleMy beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one who loves is born of God, and knows God. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God, NT Translations Anderson New TestamentBeloved, let us love one another; for love is of God: and every one that loves, has been begotten of God, and knows God. Godbey New Testament Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God. Haweis New Testament Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. Mace New Testament Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. Weymouth New Testament Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God. Worrell New Testament Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. Worsley New Testament Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Love Comes from God6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception. 7Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.… Cross References John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. / By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. / It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. / Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. ... Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ / This is the first and greatest commandment. / And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Romans 13:8-10 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. / The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” / Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Ephesians 5:1-2 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, / and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. 1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. Colossians 3:14 And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity. 1 John 3:11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 1 John 3:23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us. John 15:12-13 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. / Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 2 John 1:5-6 And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another. / And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love. Leviticus 19:18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Treasury of Scripture Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. let. 1 John 4:20,21 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? … See on ch. 1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 3:10-23 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother… 1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. love is. 1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, every. 1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. See on ch. 1 John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. 1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. and knoweth. John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Jump to Previous Beginning Begotten Beloved Born Child Dear Friends Love Loved Ones OriginJump to Next Beginning Begotten Beloved Born Child Dear Friends Love Loved Ones Origin1 John 4 1. He warns them not to believe all who boast of the Spirit;7. and exhorts to brotherly love. Beloved This term is a translation of the Greek word "ἀγαπητοί" (agapetoi), which conveys a deep, affectionate love. It is often used in the New Testament to address fellow believers, emphasizing the special bond and unity within the Christian community. Historically, this term reflects the early church's understanding of being a family in Christ, bound together by divine love. let us love one another for love comes from God Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God (a)Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love (1John 4:7-8). (b)The grand recent historical exhibition of God's love (1John 4:9-10). (c)Our consequent duty (1John 4:11). . . . Verses 7-21. - God is Love, and love is the surest test of birth from God. From 1 John 3:11, 12 St. John renews his exhortations to love, this time at greater length and in closer connexion with the other great subject of this second half of the Epistle, the birth from God. Verse 7. - Beloved (see on verse 1) The address is specially suitable where the subject is love. As before, we must not look for the chief purport of the section in the exhortation with which it opens. Just as "prove the spirits" is subordinate to "every spirit which confesseth," etc., so "let us love one another" is subordinate to "God is Love." (For the history and meaning of the specially Christian term ἀγάπη, see Trench's 'Synonyms of New Testament.')Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Beloved,Ἀγαπητοί (Agapētoi) Adjective - Vocative Masculine Plural Strong's 27: From agapao; beloved. let us love ἀγαπῶμεν (agapōmen) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. one another, ἀλλήλους (allēlous) Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another. because ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. love ἀγάπη (agapē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. comes ἐστιν (estin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. from ἐκ (ek) Preposition Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. God. Θεοῦ (Theou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. Everyone πᾶς (pas) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. who ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. loves ἀγαπῶν (agapōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. has been born γεγέννηται (gegennētai) Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1080: From a variation of genos; to procreate; figuratively, to regenerate. of ἐκ (ek) Preposition Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. God Θεοῦ (Theou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. knows γινώσκει (ginōskei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications. God. Θεόν (Theon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. Links 1 John 4:7 NIV1 John 4:7 NLT 1 John 4:7 ESV 1 John 4:7 NASB 1 John 4:7 KJV 1 John 4:7 BibleApps.com 1 John 4:7 Biblia Paralela 1 John 4:7 Chinese Bible 1 John 4:7 French Bible 1 John 4:7 Catholic Bible NT Letters: 1 John 4:7 Beloved let us love one another (1J iJ 1Jn i jn 1 jo) |
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