1 John 4:7

English Standard Version 2016

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Cross References

1 John 4:20

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

1 John 2:10

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

Galatians 5:22

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

2 Timothy 1:7

for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 John 4:12

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

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

John 17:3

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give 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 circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

1 John 2:3

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

1 John 2:4

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.

1 John 3:9

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:16

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

2 John 1:5

And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.