7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who 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 who is in you than he who is in the world.

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

6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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

8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only 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 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.