Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
beloved, if God so loved us, we ought 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.
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 and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins. 11 beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another. 12 no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere.
Cross References
Matthew 18:32-33
then his lord order'd him to be call'd, and said to him, O thou wicked slave, I forgave thee all thy debt, upon your request:
Luke 10:37
he, reply'd the doctor, who took pity on him. then said Jesus to him, go then, and imitate his example.
John 13:34
a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."
John 15:12-13
this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 8:8-9
I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected.
Ephesians 4:31-2
banish all resentment and indignation, anger, vehemence, detraction, and every thing like malice.
Colossians 3:13
bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, when one has any cause of complaint against another: as the Lord forgave you, do you likewise forgive.
1 John 3:16-17
this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:23
now this is his commandment, that we believe in his son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, as he commanded us.