1 John 4:7

God's Word

Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

Cross References

John 13:34

“I’m giving you a new commandment: Love each other in the same way that I have loved you.

John 17:3

This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if they love God, they are known by God.

2 Corinthians 4:6

We are his servants because the same God who said that light should shine out of darkness has given us light. For that reason we bring to light the knowledge about God’s glory which shines from Christ’s face.

Galatians 4:9

But now you know God, or rather, God knows you. So how can you turn back again to the powerless and bankrupt principles of this world? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

Galatians 5:22

But the spiritual nature produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants. You will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and you will live.

2 Timothy 1:7

God didn’t give us a cowardly spirit but a spirit of power, love, and good judgment.

1 Peter 1:22

Love each other with a warm love that comes from the heart. After all, you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth. As a result you have a sincere love for each other.

1 John 2:10

Those who love other believers live in the light. Nothing will destroy the faith of those who live in the light.

1 John 2:29

If you know that Christ has God’s approval, you also know that everyone who does what God approves of has been born from God.

1 John 2:3

We are sure that we know Christ if we obey his commandments.

1 John 2:4

The person who says, “I know him,” but doesn’t obey his commandments is a liar. The truth isn’t in that person.

1 John 2:7

Dear friends, it’s not as though I’m writing to give you a new commandment. Rather, I’m giving you an old commandment that you’ve had from the beginning. It’s the old commandment you’ve already heard.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born from God don’t live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can’t live sinful lives. They have been born from God.

1 John 4:11

Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love each other.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:16

We have known and believed that God loves us. God is love. Those who live in God’s love live in God, and God lives in them.

1 John 4:20

Whoever says, “I love God,” but hates another believer is a liar. People who don’t love other believers, whom they have seen, can’t love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:8

The person who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children.

2 John 1:5

Dear lady, I’m now requesting that we continue to love each other. It’s not as though I’m writing to give you a new commandment. Rather, from the beginning we were commanded to love each other.