Love Comes from God
1 John 4:19
In 9 translations
- BSB
- We love because He first loved us.BYZ and TR We love Him
- KJV
- We love him, because he first loved us.
- WEB
- We love him, because he first loved us.NU omits “him”.
- ASV
- We love, because he first loved us.
- LSV
- we love Him, because He first loved us;
- YLT
- we — we love him, because He — He first loved us;
- DBY
- We love because he has first loved us.
- DRC
- Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.
- GNV
- We loue him, because he loued vs first.
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Where the editions differ
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include αὐτόν (“him”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: ἀγαπῶμεν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀγαπῶμεν; Robinson–Pierpont add αὐτόν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἡμεῖς ἀγαπῶμεν, ὅτι αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς.
- RP2018
- Ἡμεῖς ἀγαπῶμεν αὐτόν, ὅτι αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς.
- TR-Boyd
- Ἡμεῖς ἀγαπῶμεν αὐτόν, ὅτι αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς.
- SCR1894
- ημεις αγαπωμεν αυτον οτι αυτος πρωτος ηγαπησεν ημας
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 John 4:10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was…
- Titus 3:3–5For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and…
- Luke 7:47Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
- Ephesians 2:3–5All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. But because of His great love for us, God,…
- Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).