1 John 4:16 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ We have known and have believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:16 Cross References

Psalm 31:19

O how abundant is your goodness that you have laid up for those who fear you, and accomplished for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of everyone!

Isaiah 64:4

From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him.

John 6:69

We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”

John 9:3

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:16

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.

1 John 3:24

All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.

1 John 4:7

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