1 John 4:7

The Passion Translation

Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him.

Cross References

John 13:34

“So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you.

John 17:3

Eternal life means to know and experience you as the only true God, and to know and experience Jesus Christ, as the Son whom you have sent.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if a person passionately loves God, he will possess the knowledge of God.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let brilliant light shine out of darkness,” is the one who has cascaded his light into us—the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 4:9

But now that we truly know him and are intimately known by him, why would we for a moment consider turning back to those weak and feeble principles of religion, as though we were still subject to them?

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit produced by the Holy Spirit within you is divine love in all its varied expressions: joy that overflows, peace that subdues, patience that endures, kindness in action, a life full of virtue, faith that prevails, gentleness of heart, and strength of spirit. Never set the law above these qualities, for they are meant to be limitless.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control.

1 Peter 1:22

Now, because of your obedience to the truth, you have purified your very souls, and this empowers you to be full of love for your fellow believers. So express this sincere love toward one another passionately and with a pure heart.

1 John 2:10

But the one who truly loves a fellow believer lives in the light, and there is nothing in him that will cause someone else to stumble.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who lives in righteousness has been divinely fathered by him.

1 John 2:3

Here’s how we can be sure that we’ve truly come to know God: if we keep his commands.

1 John 2:4

If someone claims, “I have come to know God by experience,” yet doesn’t keep God’s commands, he is a phony and the truth finds no place in him.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I’m not writing a new commandment to you, but an old one that you had from the beginning, and you’ve already heard it.

1 John 3:9

Everyone who is truly God’s child will refuse to keep sinning because God’s seed remains within him, and he is unable to continue sinning because he has been fathered by God himself.

1 John 4:11

Delightfully loved ones, if he loved us with such tremendous love, then “loving one another” should be our way of life!

1 John 4:12

No one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God’s splendor. But if we love one another, God makes his permanent home in us, and we make our permanent home in him, and his love is brought to its full expression in us.

1 John 4:16

We have come into an intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love he has for us. God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them.

1 John 4:20

Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred toward another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or sister, whom you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see?

1 John 4:8

The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah is God’s spiritual child and has been fathered by God himself. And everyone who loves Father God loves his children as well.

2 John 1:5

Dearest woman, I have a request to make of you. It is not a new commandment but a repetition of the one we have had from the beginning: that we constantly love one another.