1 John 4:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
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 them.

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

English Standard Version
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Berean Study Bible
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

New American Standard Bible
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

NASB 1995
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

NASB 1977
And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Amplified Bible
We have come to know [by personal observation and experience], and have believed [with deep, consistent faith] the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him.

Christian Standard Bible
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Contemporary English Version
and are sure God loves us. God is love. If we keep on loving others, we will stay one in our hearts with God, and he will stay one with us.

Good News Translation
And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We have known and believed that God loves us. God is love. Those who live in God's love live in God, and God lives in them.

International Standard Version
We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

NET Bible
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

New King James Version
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.

King James 2000 Bible
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

New Heart English Bible
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

World English Bible
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

American King James Version
And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

American Standard Version
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

A Faithful Version
And we have known and have believed the love that God has toward us. God is love, and the one who dwells in love is dwelling in God, and God in him.

Darby Bible Translation
And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

English Revised Version
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love: and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And we haue knowen, & beleeued ye loue that God hath in vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, & God in him.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And we haue knowen and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in hym.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and we haue knowne and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And we have knowen and beleved the love that god hath to vs. God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in god and god in him.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and we have known and believed the love that God has in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in love, remains in God, and God in him.

Berean Literal Bible
And we have come to know and have come to believe the love that God has as to us. God is love, and the one abiding in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Young's Literal Translation
and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

Smith's Literal Translation
And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And we have come to know and have come to believe the love which God has in us. God is love, and the one abiding in love, abides in God, and God abides in him.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
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.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And we believe and we know the love that God has for us, for God is love, and everyone who dwells in love dwells in God.

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

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.

Godbey New Testament
And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Haweis New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

Mace New Testament
and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Weymouth New Testament
And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

Worrell New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.

Worsley New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us: for God is love; and he, that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
















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