A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
1 John 4:7 - English Majority Text Version Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; and everyone that loves has been born of God and knows God. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
Because it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But now, having known God, or rather, having been known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which once again you wish to be slaves?
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,
He who 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.
Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.
He who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Brothers, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
Beloved, if in this way God loved us, indeed we ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
And we have come to know and believe the love which God has in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
If anyone claims, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how is it possible for him to love God whom he has not seen?
Everyone that believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone that loves Him that begot also loves him that is begotten of Him.
And now I ask you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.