1 John 4:11
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 18:32At once his master called him and said, "`Wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt, because you entreated me:
John 13:34A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.
2 Corinthians 8:8I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.
Colossians 3:13bearing with one another and readily forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also must forgive.
1 John 3:23And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.
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 →