Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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 The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error. 7 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. 8 He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.
Cross References
1 John 4:8
He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.
1 John 2:29
Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.
Galatians 5:22
The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;
1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother man continues in the light, and his life puts no stumbling-block in the way of others.
1 John 4:12
No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.
1 John 4:20-1
If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
John 17:3
And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God who said, "Out of darkness let light shine," is He who has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory, which is radiant on the face of Christ.
Galatians 4:9
Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
2 Timothy 1:7
For the Spirit which God has given us is not a spirit of cowardice, but one of power and of love and of sound judgement.
1 Peter 1:22
Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.
1 John 3:10-23
By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.