1 John 4:7 (KJV)
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
1 John 4:7 is verse of the day number 205 of 366 on Lampfold, under the theme “Love is of God”. It comes from 1 John 4, and 10 other passages connected to it are listed below.
1 John 4:7 in other translations
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
American Standard Version (ASV)
1 John 4:7 in context
1 John 4:4–10 (KJV). The verse of the day is highlighted.
4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7Beloved, let us love one another: for love 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 love.
9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Cross-references for 1 John 4:7
Passages most often linked to 1 John 4:7, strongest connections first.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. …
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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