1 John 4:7

WEB

⁷Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

KJV

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

BSB

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

FBV

⁷Dear friends, let's go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know God.

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Extra References

1 John 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:22

²²Seeing 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,

1 John 2:10

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

Galatians 5:22

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

2 Timothy 1:7

⁷For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

⁹But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

1 John 4:12

¹²No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

1 John 3:10-23

¹⁰In 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. ¹¹For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another— ¹²unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

¹³Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴We 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. ¹⁵Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

¹⁶By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

¹⁸My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. ¹⁹And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him, ²⁰because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; ²²so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. ²³This 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 2:29

²⁹If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.