1John.4.7

My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God.

1John.4.7

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1John.4.7

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1John.4.7

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1John.4.8

The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love--so you can't know him if you don't love.

1John.4.8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1John.4.8

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1John.4.8

But anyone who does not love does not know God--for God is love.

1John.4.9

This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him.

1John.4.9

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1John.4.9

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

1John.4.9

God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.

1John.4.10

This is the kind of love we are talking about--not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.

1John.4.10

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1John.4.10

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1John.4.10

This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

1John.4.11

My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other.

1John.4.11

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1John.4.11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1John.4.11

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

1John.4.12

No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us--perfect love!

1John.4.12

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1John.4.12

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

1John.4.12

No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.

1John.4.13

This is how we know we're living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He's given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit.

1John.4.13

We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

1John.4.13

By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

1John.4.13

And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.

1John.4.14

Also, we've seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world.

1John.4.14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

1John.4.14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

1John.4.14

Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

1John.4.15

Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God's Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God.

1John.4.15

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

1John.4.15

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

1John.4.15

All who proclaim that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.

1John.4.16

We know it so well, we've embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God. God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us.

1John.4.16

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

1John.4.16

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

1John.4.16

We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in him. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

1John.4.17

This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day--our standing in the world is identical with Christ's.

1John.4.17

In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.

1John.4.17

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

1John.4.17

And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.

1John.4.18

There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life--fear of death, fear of judgment--is one not yet fully formed in love.

1John.4.18

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1John.4.18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

1John.4.18

Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment, and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us.

1John.4.19

We, though, are going to love--love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.

1John.4.19

We love because he first loved us.

1John.4.19

We love Him because He first loved us.

1John.4.19

We love each other as a result of his loving us first.

1John.4.20

If anyone boasts, "I love God," and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won't love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can't see?

1John.4.20

If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

1John.4.20

If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1John.4.20

If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen?

1John.4.21

The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both.

1John.4.21

And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1John.4.21

And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

1John.4.21

And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.