A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
1 John 4:7 - King James 2000 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that 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 commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But now, after you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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.
For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that does righteousness is born of him.
He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.
Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his nature remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him.
And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.