I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another.
1 John 4:7 - The Text-Critical English New Testament Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been 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. |
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another.
This is eternal life, that they may know yoʋ, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom yoʋ have sent.
For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are turning back again to the weak and worthless elements? Do you wish to be enslaved to them once more?
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love, and sound judgment.
Since you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth through the Spirit, resulting in genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
By this we can be sure that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Whoever says, “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Brothers, I am not writing you a new commandment, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have heard from the beginning.
No one who has been born of God continues in sin, because God's seed abides in him; he cannot continue in sin, because he has been born of God.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet 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?
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves him who has begotten also loves the one begotten of him.
And now I ask yoʋ, dear lady—not as writing yoʋ a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.