1 John 4:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

Cross References

1 John 4:20

If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4:8

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

1 Peter 1:22

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

1 John 2:10

He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

1 John 4:12

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

1 John 2:29

If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

John 13:34

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

1 John 2:3

And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

1 John 2:4

The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

1 John 2:7

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

1 John 3:9

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

1 John 4:11

My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

1 John 4:16

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

2 John 1:5

And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.