1 John 4:7

In 9 translations

BSB

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

KJV

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

WEB

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

ASV

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

LSV

Beloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God;

YLT

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;

DBY

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.ElohimElohimElohim

DRC

Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

GNV

Beloued, let vs loue one another: for loue commeth of God, and euery one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God.

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SBLGNT

Ἀγαπητοί, ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους, ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστιν, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ γεγέννηται καὶ γινώσκει τὸν θεόν.

RP2018

Ἀγαπητοί, ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους· ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστίν, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ γεγέννηται, καὶ γινώσκει τὸν θεόν.

TR-Boyd

Ἀγαπητοί, ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους· ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστί, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ γεγέννηται, καὶ γινώσκει τὸν Θεόν.

SCR1894

αγαπητοι αγαπωμεν αλληλους οτι η αγαπη εκ του θεου εστιν και πας ο αγαπων εκ του θεου γεγεννηται και γινωσκει τον θεον

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• 1 John 4:20–5:1If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves…
• 1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
• 1 Peter 1:22Since 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 John 2:10Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
• Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• 1 Thessalonians 4:9–10Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But…
• 2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
• 1 John 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
• 1 John 3:10–23By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother. This is the message you have heard…
• 1 John 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
• John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
• 2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Galatians 4:9But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

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