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1 John 4:11

Dear friends, since God loved us in this way, we should love one another.

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

12No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love reaches perfection within us.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:32So the master sent for the servant, and said to him ‘You wicked servant! When you begged me for mercy, I forgave you the whole of that debt.

John 13:34I give you a new commandment – love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

2 Corinthians 8:8I am not laying a command on you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection.

Colossians 3:13bearing with one another, and, when there is any ground for complaint, forgiving one another freely. As the Master freely forgave you, so you must forgive one another.

1 John 3:23His command is that we should believe in his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, as Christ commanded 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 →

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