1 John 4:7

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KJV King James Version

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

BSB 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.

WEB World English Bible

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

ASV 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.

YLT 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;

Surrounding context — 1 John 4

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

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1 John 4:20If 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?1 John 4:8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.1 Peter 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:1 John 2:10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,1 Thessalonians 4:9-10But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.2 Timothy 1:7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.1 John 4:12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.1 John 3:10-23In 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 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.Deuteronomy 30:6And 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.John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.2 Corinthians 4:6For 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 4:9But 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?

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