1 John 4:16 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

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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 thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee, and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men!

Isaiah 64:4

From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him.

John 6:69

and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

John 9:3

Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man 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 so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:16

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1 John 3:24

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

1 John 4:7

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