1 John 4:7

New International Version

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Cross References

1 John 4:20

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.

1 John 2:10

Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.

Galatians 5:22

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

2 Timothy 1:7

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

John 17:3

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.

Deuteronomy 30:6

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

Galatians 4:9

But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

John 13:34

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But whoever loves God is known by God.

1 John 2:3

We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

1 John 2:7

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

1 John 3:9

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

1 John 4:11

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

1 John 4:16

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

2 John 1:5

And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.