1 John 4:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

Cross References

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if one loves God, one is known by him.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of [Jesus] Christ. The Paradox of the Ministry.

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 destitute elemental powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all over again?

Galatians 5:22

In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord, your God, will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being, in order that you may live.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a [pure] heart.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him to cause a fall.

1 John 2:29

If you consider that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him.

1 John 2:3

The way we may be sure that we know him is to 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 no new commandment to you 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 who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.

1 John 4:11

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

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.

1 John 4:16

We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.

1 John 4:20

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

1 John 4:8

Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the father loves [also] the one begotten by him.

2 John 1:5

But now, Lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another.