1 John 4:7
Good News Translation
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.

New Revised Standard Version
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Contemporary English Version
My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows we have been given new life. We are now God's children, and we know him.

New American Bible
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

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1 John 4:20,21 If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not? . . .

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1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no scandal in him.

1 John 3:10-23 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother. . . .

1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

love is.

1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.

Deuteronomy 30:6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

1 Thessalonians 4:9,10 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another. . . .

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power and of love and of sobriety.

1 Peter 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

every.

1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.

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1 John 2:29 If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

and knoweth.

John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to serve again?

Context
Love Comes from God
6We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 7Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. 8He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.…
Cross References
John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

1 Corinthians 8:3
But if any man love God, the same is known by him.

1 John 2:3
And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:4
He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:7
Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 2:29
If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:11
For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.

1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.

1 John 4:11
My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:16
And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.

1 John 5:1
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

2 John 1:5
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

1 John 4:6
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