1 John 4:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

We love because he first loved us.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

We love him, because he first loved us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

We love Him, because He first loved us.

American Standard Version (1901)

We love, because he first loved us.

Common English Bible

We love because God first loved us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.

1 John 4:19 Cross References

Luke 7:47

Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little.”

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

Galatians 5:22

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.