1 John 4:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

Common English Bible

⁷ Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

1 John 4:7 Cross References

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if one loves God, one is known by him.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Galatians 4:9

but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Galatians 5:22

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

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

2 Timothy 1:7

for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.

1 John 2:10

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that every one who does right is born of him.

1 John 2:3

And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:4

He who says “I know him” but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 3:9

No one born of God commits sin; for God's nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:12

No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:16

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.

1 John 4:20

If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:8

He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

1 John 5:1

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child.

2 John 1:5

And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.