Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
We love him, because he first loved us.
Holman Bible
We love
International Standard Version
We love because God first loved us.
A Conservative Version
We love him, because he first loved us.
American Standard Version
We love, because he first loved us.
Amplified
We love, because
An Understandable Version
We love [God and others] because God has first loved us.
Anderson New Testament
We love him, because he first loved us.
Common New Testament
We love because he first loved us.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let us love him; since he first loved us.
Darby Translation
We love because he has first loved us.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
We love him, because he first loved us.
Godbey New Testament
Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
We love because he loved us first.
John Wesley New Testament
He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.
Julia Smith Translation
We should love him, for he first loved us.
King James 2000
We love him, because he first loved us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We love, because he first loved us.
Modern King James verseion
We love Him because He first loved us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We love him, because he loved us first.
Moffatt New Testament
We love, because He loved us first.
Montgomery New Testament
We love because He loved us first.
NET Bible
We love because he loved us first.
New Heart English Bible
We love, because he first loved us.
Noyes New Testament
We love, because he first loved us.
Sawyer New Testament
We love, because he first loved us.
The Emphasized Bible
We, love, because, he, first loved us: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
We love him, because he first loved us.
Twentieth Century New Testament
We love, because God first loved us.
Webster
We love him, because he first loved us.
Weymouth New Testament
We love because God first loved us.
Williams New Testament
We love, because He loved us first.
World English Bible
We love him, because he first loved us.
Worrell New Testament
We love, because He first loved us.
Worsley New Testament
We love Him, because He first loved us. If any one say,
Youngs Literal Translation
we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;
Themes
Condescension of God » Scriptures relating to
God, Love Of » The source of our love to him
Love to God » Produced by » The love of God to us
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Examples of love to God
Topics
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Watsons
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:19
Prayers for 1 John 4:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
18 There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love. 19 We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us. 20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
Cross References
1 John 4:10
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
Luke 7:47
And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.
John 3:16
For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
John 15:16
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
Ephesians 2:3-5
Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
Titus 3:3-5
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.