Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Holman Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.
International Standard Version
Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love one another.
American Standard Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Amplified
Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another.
An Understandable Version
Loved ones, if God loved us that much, we should also love one another.
Anderson New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Bible in Basic English
My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
Common New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Daniel Mace New Testament
beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.
Darby Translation
Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we, also, ought to love one another.
Godbey New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.
John Wesley New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Julia Smith Translation
Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
King James 2000
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Modern King James verseion
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another.
Moffatt New Testament
Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.
Montgomery New Testament
If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.
NET Bible
Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
New Heart English Bible
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Noyes New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Sawyer New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
The Emphasized Bible
Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.
Webster
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Weymouth New Testament
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Williams New Testament
Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.
World English Bible
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Worrell New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Worsley New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Youngs Literal Translation
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
Themes
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
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Devotionals about 1 John 4:11
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Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other. 12 No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.
Cross References
Matthew 18:32-33
Then his lord having summoned him, he says to him, Thou evil bondman, I forgave thee all that debt because thou besought me.
Luke 10:37
And he said, He who did mercy with him. Therefore Jesus said to him, Go, and do thou likewise.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.
John 15:12-13
This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 8:8-9
I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.
Ephesians 4:31-2
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.
Colossians 3:13
forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,
1 John 3:16-17
By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love each other, just as he gave command.