1 John 4:7

A Conservative Version

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

Cross References

1 John 4:20

If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4:8

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Peter 1:22

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

1 John 2:10

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and no cause of stumbling is in him.

Galatians 5:22

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

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.

1 John 4:12

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

1 John 2:29

If ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every man doing righteousness has been begotten of him.

John 17:3

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 30:6

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

Galatians 4:9

but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.

1 John 2:3

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

1 John 2:4

He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this man.

1 John 2:7

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment that ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that ye heard from the beginning.

1 John 3:9

Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.

1 John 4:16

And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 5:1

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

2 John 1:5

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but what we had from the beginning, that we would love each other.