A new mitzvah I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
1 John 4:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him]. American Standard Version (1901) Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. Common English Bible Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. Catholic Public Domain Version Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. |
A new mitzvah I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah.
seeing it is 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 Yeshua the Messiah.
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, shalom, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
One who says, *I know him,* and doesn't keep his mitzvot, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
Brothers, I write no new mitzvah to you, but an old mitzvah which you had from the beginning. The old mitzvah is the word which you heard from the beginning.
Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
If a man says, *I love God,* and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Whoever believes that Yeshua is the Messiah is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new mitzvah, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.