Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. 8 The one who does not love has not known God. For God is love.
Cross References
1 John 4:8
The one who does not love has not known God. For God is love.
1 John 2:29
If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness has been born of Him.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no offense in him.
1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:20-1
If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Deuteronomy 30:6
And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:9
But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you again desire to slave anew?
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
1 Peter 1:22
Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,
1 John 3:10-23
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.