11 translations · Greek
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
1 John 4:7 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
- KJV King James Version
- Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Beloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Dear friends, let's go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know God.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Beloved, 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἀγαπητοί | Agapētoi | Beloved | G27 ἀγαπητός beloved |
| ἀγαπῶμεν | agapōmen | let us love | G25 ἀγαπάω to love |
| ἀλλήλους | allēlous | one another | G240 ἀλλήλων one another |
| ὅτι | hoti | because | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| ἡ | hē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀγάπη | agapē | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| ἐκ | ek | from | G1537 ἐκ out from |
| τοῦ | tou | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God | G2316 θεός God |
| ἐστιν | estin | comes | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| καὶ | kai | — | G2532 καί and |
| πᾶς | pas | Everyone | G3956 πᾶς all |
| ὁ | ho | who | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀγαπῶν | agapōn | loves | G25 ἀγαπάω to love |
| ἐκ | ek | of | G1537 ἐκ out from |
| τοῦ | tou | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God | G2316 θεός God |
| γεγέννηται | gegennētai | has been born | G1080 γεννάω to beget |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| γινώσκει | ginōskei | knows | G1097 γινώσκω to know |
| τὸν | ton | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεόν | Theon | God | G2316 θεός God |
Related verses
- 1 John 4:20–5:1
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. …
- 1 John 4:8
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
- 1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
- 1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
- Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:9–10
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
- 2 Timothy 1:7
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
- 1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
- 1 John 3:10–23
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother. For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous. …
- 1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
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 has been 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.
Read all of 1 John 4 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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