1 John 4:7

New English Translation

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

Cross References

John 13:34

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 17:3

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

1 Corinthians 8:3

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

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 basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Galatians 5:22

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

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Peter 1:22

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

1 John 2:10

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

1 John 2:3

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:4

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

1 John 2:7

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

1 John 3:9

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

1 John 4:11

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:12

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

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

1 John 4:20

If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:8

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

2 John 1:5

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.