1 John 4:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

1 John 4:20

If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?

1 John 4:8

He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.

1 Peter 1:22

Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

1 John 2:10

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no scandal in him.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

2 Timothy 1:7

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.

1 John 4:12

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.

1 John 2:29

If you know, that he is just, know ye, that every one also, who doth justice, is born of him.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that then mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Galatians 4:9

But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements, which you desire to serve again?

John 13:34

A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if any man love God, the same is known by him.

1 John 2:3

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

1 John 2:4

He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:7

Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 3:9

Whosoever is born of God, committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him, and he can not sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 4:11

My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:16

And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.

1 John 5:1

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

2 John 1:5

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