Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
We should love him, for he 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
An Understandable Version
We love [God and others] because God has first loved us.
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.
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 Fear is not in love; but perfected love casts out fear: for fear has restraint. And he fearing has not been perfected in love. 19 We should love him, for he first loved us. 20 If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?
Cross References
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
Luke 7:47
For which I say to thee, Her many sins are remitted; for she loved much: and he to whom little is remitted, loves little.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.
Galatians 5:22
And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
John 15:16
Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:
Ephesians 2:3-5
Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.
Titus 3:3-5
For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.