1 John 4:7

Easy To Read Version

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. The person who loves has become God’s child. And so the person who loves knows God.

Cross References

John 13:34

“I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other like I loved you.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that people can know Jesus Christ, the One you sent.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But the person who loves God is known by God.

2 Corinthians 4:6

God once said, “The light will shine out of the darkness!” And this is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts. He gave us light by letting us know the glory of God that is in the face of Christ.

Galatians 4:9

But now you know the true God. Really, it is God who knows you. So why do you turn back to those weak and useless rules you followed before? Do you want to be slaves to those things again?

Galatians 5:22

But the Spirit {\cf2\super [74]} gives love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will make you and your descendants want to obey him. [198] Then you will love the Lord with all your heart. And you will live!

2 Timothy 1:7

The Spirit {\cf2\super [4]} God gave us does not make us afraid. He is our source of power and love and self control.

1 Peter 1:22

Now you have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now you can have true love for your brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply—with all your heart.

1 John 2:10

The person that loves his brothers and sisters lives in the light, and there is nothing in that person that will make him do wrong.

1 John 2:29

You know that Christ is righteous (good). So you know that all people who do what is right (good) are God’s children.

1 John 2:3

If we obey what God has told us to do, then we are sure that we truly know God.

1 John 2:4

A person says, “I know God!” But if that person does not obey God’s commands, then that person is a liar. The truth is not in him.

1 John 2:7

My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you have had since the beginning. This command is the teaching you have already heard.

1 John 3:9

When God makes a person his child, that person does not continue to sin. Why? Because the new life God gave that person {\cf2\super [9]} stays in him. So that person is not able to continue sinning. Why? Because he has become a child of God.

1 John 4:11

That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other.

1 John 4:12

No person has ever seen God. But if we love each other, then God lives in us. If we love each other, then God’s love has reached its goal—it is made perfect in us.

1 John 4:16

And so we know the love that God has for us. And we trust that love.

1 John 4:20

If a person says, “I love God,” but that person hates his brother or sister \{in Christ\}, then that person is a liar. That person can see his brother, but he hates him. So that person cannot love God, because he has never seen God!

1 John 4:8

The person that does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 5:1

Greetings from Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James.