1 John 4:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

John 17:3

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

1 Corinthians 8:3

but anyone who loves God is known by him.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Light will 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 Christ.

Galatians 4:9

Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?

Galatians 5:22

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

Deuteronomy 30:6

“Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.

2 Timothy 1:7

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

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves a brother or sister abides in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling.

1 John 2:29

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

1 John 2:3

Now by this we know that we have come to know him, if we obey his commandments.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them; they cannot sin because they have been born of God.

1 John 4:11

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

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:16

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or 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, for God is love.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.

2 John 1:5

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