1 John 4:7

Modern English Version

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is 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 whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:22

Since your souls have been purified by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply with a pure heart,

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother lives 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, gentleness, goodness, faith,

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and self-control.

1 John 4:12

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

1 John 2:29

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness is born of Him.

John 17:3

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to 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

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

Galatians 4:9

But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and worthless elemental forces to which you desire again to be in bondage?

John 13:34

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

1 John 2:3

By this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:7

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

1 John 3:9

Whoever has been born of God does not practice sin, for His seed remains 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 must also love one another.

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

1 John 5:1

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the one born of the Father.

2 John 1:5

And now I ask you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.