Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Holman Bible
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God
A Conservative Version
Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
American Standard Version
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
Amplified
Beloved, let us [unselfishly]
An Understandable Version
Loved ones, we should have love for one another, because love comes from [the very nature of] God, and every person who [continually] loves [others] has been [spiritually] conceived by God [See 2:29; 3:9], and knows [he is in fellowship with] God.
Anderson New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God: and every one that loves, has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Common New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
Darby Translation
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God: and every one who loves, has been begotten by God, and knows God.
Godbey New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
John Wesley New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Julia Smith Translation
Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God.
King James 2000
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
Modern King James verseion
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God.
Moffatt New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;
Montgomery New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.
NET Bible
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
New Heart English Bible
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
Noyes New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God, and every one that loveth hath been born of God, and knoweth God;
Sawyer New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.
The Emphasized Bible
Beloved! let us be loving one another; because, love, is, of God, and, whosoever loveth, of God, hath been born, and is getting to understand God:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.
Webster
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Weymouth New Testament
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.
Williams New Testament
Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.
World English Bible
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
Worrell New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Worsley New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Youngs Literal Translation
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;
Themes
Brotherly love » Special teachings concerning » Fervent
Character transformed » Becomes the apostle of love
Conversion » Characters transformed by » Becomes the apostle of love
Holy spirit » Regenerating » By the word of God
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
Knowledge » Who knows the lord
Love » Love, brotherly special teachings concerning » Fervent
Love » Special teachings concerning » Fervent
New » Birth » By the word of God
New Birth » Evidenced by » Brotherly love
Rebirth/being born again » Who is born of God
Regeneration » The teaching concerning » By the word of God
Topics
Interlinear
Ek
ἐκ ἐξ
Ek
Usage: 709
theos
θεός
theos
Usage: 1151
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:7
Images 1 John 4:7
Prayers for 1 John 4:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
6 We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. 7 Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. 8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Cross References
1 John 4:8
The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 2:29
Since you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by God.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 John 2:10
The person who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no reason for him to stumble.
1 John 4:12
No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:20-1
Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.
Deuteronomy 30:6
Then the LORD your God will circumcise both your hearts and those of your descendants so that you can love him with your heart and with your soul and therefore live.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus the Messiah.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but one of power, love, and self-discipline.
1 Peter 1:22
Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.
1 John 3:10-23
This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.