Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Holman Bible
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God
International Standard Version
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
A Conservative Version
Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
American Standard Version
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
Amplified
Beloved, let us [unselfishly]
An Understandable Version
Loved ones, we should have love for one another, because love comes from [the very nature of] God, and every person who [continually] loves [others] has been [spiritually] conceived by God [See 2:29; 3:9], and knows [he is in fellowship with] God.
Anderson New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God: and every one that loves, has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Bible in Basic English
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
Common New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
Darby Translation
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God: and every one who loves, has been begotten by God, and knows God.
Godbey New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
John Wesley New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
King James 2000
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
Modern King James verseion
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God.
Moffatt New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;
Montgomery New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.
NET Bible
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
New Heart English Bible
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
Noyes New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God, and every one that loveth hath been born of God, and knoweth God;
Sawyer New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.
The Emphasized Bible
Beloved! let us be loving one another; because, love, is, of God, and, whosoever loveth, of God, hath been born, and is getting to understand God:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.
Webster
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Weymouth New Testament
Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.
Williams New Testament
Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.
World English Bible
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
Worrell New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Worsley New Testament
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Youngs Literal Translation
Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
Themes
Brotherly love » Special teachings concerning » Fervent
Character transformed » Becomes the apostle of love
Conversion » Characters transformed by » Becomes the apostle of love
Holy spirit » Regenerating » By the word of God
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
Knowledge » Who knows the lord
Love » Love, brotherly special teachings concerning » Fervent
Love » Special teachings concerning » Fervent
New » Birth » By the word of God
New Birth » Evidenced by » Brotherly love
Rebirth/being born again » Who is born of God
Regeneration » The teaching concerning » By the word of God
Topics
Interlinear
Ek
ἐκ ἐξ
Ek
Usage: 709
theos
θεός
theos
Usage: 1151
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:7
Prayers for 1 John 4:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
6 We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 7 Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God. 8 He not loving knows not God; for God is love.
Cross References
1 John 4:8
He not loving knows not God; for God is love.
1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is just, ye know that every one doing justice has been born of him.
Galatians 5:22
And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
1 John 2:10
He loving his brother remains in light, and there is no stumbling-block in him.
1 John 4:12
None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us.
1 John 4:20-1
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?
Deuteronomy 30:6
And Jehovah thy God circumcised thy heart and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:9
And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind.
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially:
1 John 3:10-23
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.