1 John 4:11

Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Herein, is love: not that, we, have loved God, but that, he, loved us, and sent forth his Son, as a propitiation concerning our sins.

12Upon God, hath no one, at any time, gazed: If we love one another, God, in us, abideth, and, his love, hath been perfected within us.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:32Then, calling him near, his master saith unto him—O wicked servant! All that debt, forgave I thee, because thou didst beseech me.

John 13:34A new commandment, give I unto you,—That ye be loving one another: Just as I loved you, that, ye also, be loving one another:

2 Corinthians 8:8Not by way of injunction, do I speak, but through, others’, earnestness, and, the genuineness of your own love, putting to the test.

Colossians 3:13Bearing one with another, and in favour forgiving one another—if any, against any, have a complaint,—according as, the Lord, in favour forgave you, so also ye;

1 John 3:23And, this, is his commandment,—that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and be loving one another—just as he gave a commandment unto 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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