1John
4:7-12; 19-21
NIV
Translation
1John
4
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.
10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his
Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and
his love is made complete in us.
19
We love because he first loved us.
20
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For
anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God,
whom he has not seen.
21
And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his
brother. |
1John
4:7-12; 19-21
New
Living Translation
1John
4
7
Dear
friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God.
Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
8
But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9
God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the
world so that we might have eternal life through him.
10
This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent
his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
11
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each
other.
12
No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and
his love is brought to full expression in us.
19
We love each other because he loved us first.
20
If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister,
that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can
we love God, whom we cannot see?
21
And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their
Christian brothers and sisters. |
