1 John 4:11
My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 18:32Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:
John 13:34I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
2 Corinthians 8:8I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
Colossians 3:13Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:
1 John 3:23And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:8-14
Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In 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. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one… Read the whole commentary →