Parallel Verses
King James Version
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
New American Standard Bible
Holman Bible
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
International Standard Version
We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
A Conservative Version
And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
American Standard Version
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
Amplified
We have come to know [by personal observation and experience], and have believed [with deep, consistent faith] the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him.
An Understandable Version
And we have known [with certainty] and have believed [with assurance] that God has truly loved us. God's [very nature] is love and the person who [continually] loves [Him and others] lives in [fellowship with] God [continually], and God [continually] lives in that person's heart.
Anderson New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.
Bible in Basic English
And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
Common New Testament
So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Darby Translation
And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And we have known, and believed the love which God has in us. God is love; wherefore, he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.
Godbey New Testament
And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Goodspeed New Testament
So we know and believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love keeps in union with God, and God with him.
John Wesley New Testament
And we know and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.
Julia Smith Translation
And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him.
King James 2000
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
Modern King James verseion
And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in him.
Moffatt New Testament
well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Montgomery New Testament
And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.
NET Bible
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
New Heart English Bible
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Noyes New Testament
And we have known and believed the love that God hath in regard to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Sawyer New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.
The Emphasized Bible
And, we, have come to understand and to trust the love which, God, hath, in us. God, is, love; and, he that abideth in love, in God, abideth, and, God, in him abideth.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
Webster
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love: and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Weymouth New Testament
And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.
Williams New Testament
So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.
World English Bible
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Worrell New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.
Worsley New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us: for God is love; and he, that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Youngs Literal Translation
and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.
Themes
God » Is declared to be » Love
God » Who the lord God dwells in
Love » Those that dwell in love
God, Love Of » Manifested towards » His saints
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Pisteuo
theos
θεός
theos
θεός
theos
θεός
theos
God, god, godly, God-ward ,
God, god, godly, God-ward ,
God, god, godly, God-ward ,
Usage: 1151
Usage: 1151
Usage: 1151
Agape
ἀγάπη
Agape
love, charity, dear, charitably+ 9, feast of charity
Usage: 105
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 John 4:16
Devotionals containing 1 John 4:16
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:16
Images 1 John 4:16
Prayers for 1 John 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Cross References
1 John 3:24
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1 John 4:8-10
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Psalm 18:1-3
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Psalm 31:19
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Psalm 36:7-9
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Isaiah 64:4
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
John 6:69
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 John 3:16
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 4:12-13
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.