1 John 4:7 Parallel Translations

Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

ASV:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

BBE:

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

DBY:

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

ERV:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

WEY:

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

WBS:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

WEB:

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

YLT:

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

1 John 4:7 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 8:3 but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

1 John 2:3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

1 John 2:7 Beloved, 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 have heard.

1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.

1 John 3:11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:7 {6} Beloved, let us love one another: {7} for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
(6) He returns to the commending of brotherly love and charity.
(7) The first reason: because it is a very divine thing, and therefore very fitting for the sons of God: so that whoever is missing it cannot be said to know God correctly.

PNT:

4:7 Let us love one another. He that is born of God must love because the Father is love; hence love shows that we are of him and know him.

WES:

4:7 Let us love one another - From the doctrine he has just been defending he draws this exhortation. It is by the Spirit that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts. Every one that truly loveth God and his neighbour is born of God.

MHC:

4:7-13 The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. He that does not love the image of God in his people, has no saving knowledge of God. For it is God's nature to be kind, and to give happiness. The law of God is love; and all would have been perfectly happy, had all obeyed it. The provision of the gospel, for the forgiveness of sin, and the salvation of sinners, consistently with God's glory and justice, shows that God is love. Mystery and darkness rest upon many things yet. God has so shown himself to be love, that we cannot come short of eternal happiness, unless through unbelief and impenitence, although strict justice would condemn us to hopeless misery, because we break our Creator's laws. None of our words or thoughts can do justice to the free, astonishing love of a holy God towards sinners, who could not profit or harm him, whom he might justly crush in a moment, and whose deserving of his vengeance was shown in the method by which they were saved, though he could by his almighty Word have created other worlds, with more perfect beings, if he had seen fit. Search we the whole universe for love in its most glorious displays? It is to be found in the person and the cross of Christ. Does love exist between God and sinners? Here was the origin, not that we loved God, but that he freely loved us. His love could not be designed to be fruitless upon us, and when its proper end and issue are gained and produced, it may be said to be perfected. So faith is perfected by its works. Thus it will appear that God dwells in us by his new-creating Spirit. A loving Christian is a perfect Christian; set him to any good duty, and he is perfect to it, he is expert at it. Love oils the wheels of his affections, and sets him on that which is helpful to his brethren. A man that goes about a business with ill will, always does it badly. That God dwells in us and we in him, were words too high for mortals to use, had not God put them before us. But how may it be known whether the testimony to this does proceed from the Holy Ghost? Those who are truly persuaded that they are the sons of God, cannot but call him Abba, Father. From love to him, they hate sin, and whatever disagrees with his will, and they have a sound and hearty desire to do his will. Such testimony is the testimony of the Holy Ghost.

CONC:

Beginning Begotten Beloved Born Child Dear Friends Knoweth Love Loved Loves Loveth Loving Ones Origin

Beginning Begotten Beloved Born Child Dear Friends Love Loved Ones Origin

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