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

¹⁹ We love because he first loved us.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ We love Him, because He first loved us.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ We love, because he first loved us.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ We love because God first loved us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ 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.