1 John 4:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

1 Corinthians 8:3

For if anyone loves God, he is known by him.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who told the light to shine out of darkness, has shined a light into our hearts, to illuminate the knowledge of the splendor of God, in the person of Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:9

But now, since you have known God, or rather, since you have been known by God: how can you turn away again, to weak and destitute influences, which you desire to serve anew?

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, so that you may love the Lord your God with your entire heart and with your entire soul, so that you may be able to live.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

1 Peter 1:22

So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause of offense in him.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is just, then know, too, that all who do what is just are born of him.

1 John 2:3

And we can be sure that we have known him by this: if we observe his commandments.

1 John 2:4

Whoever claims that he knows him, and yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:7

Most beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but the old commandment, which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word, which you have heard.

1 John 3:9

All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.

1 John 4:11

Most beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:12

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

1 John 4:16

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

1 John 4:20

If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves God, who provides that birth, also loves him who has been born of God.

2 John 1:5

And now I petition you, Lady, not as if writing a new commandment to you, but instead that commandment which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.