1 John 4:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

John 15:16

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

1 John 4:10

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:20

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.