Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

We should love him, for he first loved us.

New American Standard Bible

We love, because He first loved us.

King James Version

We love him, because he first loved us.

Holman Bible

We love because He first loved us.

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 He first loved us.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
We
ἡμεῖς 
hemeis 
we, us, we ourselves
Usage: 120

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

him

Usage: 0

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

he

Usage: 0

πρῶτος 
Protos 
Usage: 67

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 4:19

Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:19

Images 1 John 4:19

Prayers for 1 John 4:19

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.

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