1 John 4:7

New Century Version

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child and knows God.

Cross References

John 13:34

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

John 17:3

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

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if any person loves God, that person is known by God.

2 Corinthians 4:6

God once said, “Let the light shine out of the darkness!” This is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts 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 produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will prepare you and your descendants to love him with your whole being so that you will live.

2 Timothy 1:7

God did not give us a spirit that makes us afraid but a spirit of power and love and self-control.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that your obedience to the truth has purified your souls, you can have true love for your Christian brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply with all your heart.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light and will not cause anyone to stumble in his faith.

1 John 2:29

Since you know that Christ is righteous, you know that all who do right are God’s children.

1 John 2:3

We can be sure that we know God if we obey his commands.

1 John 2:4

Anyone who says, “I know God,” but does not obey God’s commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

1 John 2:7

My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you but an old command you have had from the beginning. It is the teaching you have already heard.

1 John 3:9

Those who are God’s children do not continue sinning, because the new life from God remains in them. They are not able to go on sinning, because they have become children of God.

1 John 4:11

Dear friends, if God loved us that much we also should love each other.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love 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. God is love. Those who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

1 John 4:20

If people say, “I love God,” but hate their brothers or sisters, they are liars. Those who do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have never seen.

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is God’s child, and whoever loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

2 John 1:5

And now, dear lady, this is not a new command but is the same command we have had from the beginning. I ask you that we all love each other.