7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.


In Context

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.

6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.

8 He that loves not knows 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.

1 John 4:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;