Parallel Verses
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.
A Conservative Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.
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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Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
10
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11
Cross References
Matthew 18:32-33
Then his master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.
Luke 10:37
He said, "The one who showed him mercy." And Jesus said to him, "You go, and do likewise."
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 15:12-13
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 8:8-9
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
Ephesians 4:31-2
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Colossians 3:13
bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
1 John 3:16-17
By this we know love, that he 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 believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.