1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
In Context
12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Cross References
Matthew 18:32Then the master summoned the servant and said to him, ‘Yoʋ evil servant! I forgave yoʋ all that debt because yoʋ begged me to do so.
John 13:34I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another.
2 Corinthians 8:8I am not saying this as a command, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.
Colossians 3:13bearing with one another and forgiving one other if any one of you has a complaint against another; just as Christ forgave you, so you also must forgive.
1 John 3:23And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and 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 →