Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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.
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.
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 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. 16 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. 17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
Cross References
1 John 3:24
He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
1 John 3:1
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
1 John 4:8-10
He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
Psalm 18:1-3
I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
Psalm 31:19
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
Psalm 36:7-9
How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
Isaiah 64:4
For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
John 6:69
We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 4:12-13
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.