Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
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.
Themes
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
Topics
Interlinear
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 John 4:11
Devotionals containing 1 John 4:11
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:11
Prayers for 1 John 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
10 in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love; 12 God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;
Cross References
Matthew 18:32-33
then having called him, his lord saith to him, Evil servant! all that debt I did forgive thee, seeing thou didst call upon me,
Luke 10:37
and he said, 'He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, 'Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'
John 13:34
'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
John 15:12-13
'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
2 Corinthians 8:8-9
not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,
Ephesians 4:31-2
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,
Colossians 3:13
forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;
1 John 3:16-17
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
1 John 3:23
and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,