Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
We love [God and others] because God has first loved us.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
We love him, because he first loved us.
Holman Bible
We love
International Standard Version
We love because God first loved us.
A Conservative Version
We love him, because he first loved us.
American Standard Version
We love, because he first loved us.
Amplified
We love, because
Anderson New Testament
We love him, because he first loved us.
Bible in Basic English
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
Common New Testament
We love because he first loved us.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let us love him; since he first loved us.
Darby Translation
We love because he has first loved us.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
We love him, because he first loved us.
Godbey New Testament
Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
We love because he loved us first.
John Wesley New Testament
He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.
Julia Smith Translation
We should love him, for he first loved us.
King James 2000
We love him, because he first loved us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We love, because he first loved us.
Modern King James verseion
We love Him because He first loved us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We love him, because he loved us first.
Moffatt New Testament
We love, because He loved us first.
Montgomery New Testament
We love because He loved us first.
NET Bible
We love because he loved us first.
New Heart English Bible
We love, because he first loved us.
Noyes New Testament
We love, because he first loved us.
Sawyer New Testament
We love, because he first loved us.
The Emphasized Bible
We, love, because, he, first loved us: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
We love him, because he first loved us.
Twentieth Century New Testament
We love, because God first loved us.
Webster
We love him, because he first loved us.
Weymouth New Testament
We love because God first loved us.
Williams New Testament
We love, because He loved us first.
World English Bible
We love him, because he first loved us.
Worrell New Testament
We love, because He first loved us.
Worsley New Testament
We love Him, because He first loved us. If any one say,
Youngs Literal Translation
we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;
Themes
Condescension of God » Scriptures relating to
God, Love Of » The source of our love to him
Love to God » Produced by » The love of God to us
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Examples of love to God
Topics
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Watsons
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:19
Prayers for 1 John 4:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
18 There is no [reason for] fear if one [really] loves, but a complete love removes fear [from us] because fear produces punishment [i.e., mental anxiety], and the person who is [always] afraid does not have a complete love. 19 We love [God and others] because God has first loved us. 20 If a person says, "I love God," yet [in reality] hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot [possibly] love God, whom he has never seen.
Cross References
1 John 4:10
Here is [the essence of] love: [It is] not that we loved God [first], but that He loved us [See Rom. 5:6-8] and sent His Son to be a "covering over" [i.e., atonement, 2:2] for our sins.
Luke 7:47
For this reason, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. [Note: This suggests that her forgiveness was the result of her loving, but the point Jesus makes better fits the idea that her forgiveness produced love]. But the person who is forgiven of little [i.e., of only a few sins], loves [only] a little bit."
John 3:16
For God loved the world [of sinners] so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that every person who believes in Him would not [have to] be destroyed, but have never ending life.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit produced by the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
John 15:16
You [apostles] did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you to go and bear much fruit [i.e., through their evangelizing], and that your fruit should last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask Him for in my name [i.e. by my authority].
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For Christ's love for us motivates us, because we have concluded that, [since] one person [i.e., Christ] died for all people, so then all people have died. [Note: This may mean simply that Christ died for all people, who were dead in their sins].
Ephesians 2:3-5
All of us [Jews] also once lived among such people, fulfilling the improper cravings of our physical being and doing what our bodies and minds desired. In this natural [unconverted] state we were deserving of [God's] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].
Titus 3:3-5
For we [Christians] were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various kinds of [evil] desires and [sinful] pleasures. [We used to] live in malice and envy, hating people and being hated by them.