Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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.
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 loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. 11 Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12 None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us.
Cross References
Matthew 18:32-33
Then his lord, having called him, said unto him, O thou evil servant, I let go to you all that debt since thou besoughtest me:
Luke 10:37
And he said, He having done mercy with him. Then said Jesus to him, Go thou, and do likewise.
John 13:34
A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 15:12-13
This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.
2 Corinthians 8:8-9
I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love.
Ephesians 4:31-2
Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:
Colossians 3:13
(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)
1 John 3:16-17
In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.
1 John 3:23
And this is his command, That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us command.