1 John 4:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth 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 unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

John 17:3

And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:3

but if any man loveth God, the same is known of him.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 4:9

but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known of God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

Galatians 5:22

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

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

1 John 2:10

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

1 John 2:29

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.

1 John 2:3

And hereby know we that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:4

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him:

1 John 2:7

Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.

1 John 3:9

Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten 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 hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

1 John 4:16

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.

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.

1 John 4:8

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 John 5:1

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

2 John 1:5

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.