1 John 4:7

New King James 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 someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

1 John 2:10

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

Galatians 5:22

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

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

1 John 4:12

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

1 John 2:29

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

John 17:3

And 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 it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who 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

And 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, that you may live.

Galatians 4:9

But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; 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

Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

1 John 2:4

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

1 John 2:7

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

1 John 3:9

Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

1 John 4:11

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

1 John 4:16

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides 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 Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.

2 John 1:5

And now I plead with 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.