Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

New American Standard Bible

We love, because He first loved us.

King James Version

We love him, because he first loved us.

Holman Bible

We love because He first loved us.

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 He first loved us.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
We
ἡμεῖς 
hemeis 
we, us, we ourselves
Usage: 120

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

him

Usage: 0

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

he

Usage: 0

πρῶτος 
Protos 
Usage: 67

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 4:19

Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:19

Images 1 John 4:19

Prayers for 1 John 4:19

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.

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