“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also you must love one another.
1 John 4:7 - Tree of Life Version Loved ones, let us love one another, for love is from God. 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. |
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also you must love one another.
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Yeshua the Messiah, the One You sent.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Messiah.
But now you have come to know God—or rather you have come to be known by God. So how can you turn back again to those weak and worthless principles? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Also Adonai your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants—to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity but of power and love and self-discipline.
Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.
The one who loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who does what is right is born of Him.
Now we know that we have come to know Him by this—if we keep His commandments.
The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Loved ones, I am not writing a new commandment for you, but an old commandment—one you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.
No one born of God practices sin, because God’s seed remains in him. He cannot sin, because he is born of God.
No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us and His love is made perfect in us.
So we have come to know and trust in the love that God has for us. God is love. Now whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the one born of Him.
Now I ask you, dear lady, that we love one another. It is not as though I am writing you a new command, but the one we have had from the beginning.