1 John 4:11

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

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:32Then the master summoned him and said, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.

John 13:34A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

2 Corinthians 8:8I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love through the earnestness of others.

Colossians 3:13Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as Christ forgave you.

1 John 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded.

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 →

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