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


In Context

4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

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

8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1st 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 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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