Parallel Verses
Amplified
Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Holman Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.
International Standard Version
Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love one another.
A Conservative Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.
American Standard Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
An Understandable Version
Loved ones, if God loved us that much, we should also love one another.
Anderson New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Bible in Basic English
My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
Common New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Daniel Mace New Testament
beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.
Darby Translation
Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we, also, ought to love one another.
Godbey New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.
John Wesley New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Julia Smith Translation
Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
King James 2000
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Modern King James verseion
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another.
Moffatt New Testament
Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.
Montgomery New Testament
If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.
NET Bible
Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
New Heart English Bible
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Noyes New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Sawyer New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
The Emphasized Bible
Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.
Webster
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Weymouth New Testament
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Williams New Testament
Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.
World English Bible
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Worrell New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Worsley New Testament
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Youngs Literal Translation
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
Themes
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
Topics
Interlinear
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 John 4:11
Devotionals containing 1 John 4:11
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:11
Prayers for 1 John 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [that is, the atoning sacrifice, and the satisfying offering] for our sins [fulfilling God’s requirement for justice against sin and placating His wrath]. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. But if we love one another [with unselfish concern], God abides in us, and His love [the love that is His essence abides in us and] is completed and perfected in us.
Cross References
Matthew 18:32-33
Luke 10:37
He answered, “The one who showed compassion and mercy to him.” Then Jesus said to him,
John 13:34
John 15:12-13
2 Corinthians 8:8-9
I am not saying this as a command [to dictate to you], but to prove, by [pointing out] the enthusiasm of others, the sincerity of your love as well.
Ephesians 4:31-2
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander be put away from you, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence].
Colossians 3:13
bearing graciously with one another, and willingly forgiving each other if one has a cause for complaint against another; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so should you forgive.
1 John 3:16-17
By this we know [and have come to understand the depth and essence of His precious] love: that He [willingly] laid down His life for us [because He loved us]. And we ought to lay down our lives for the believers.
1 John 3:23
This is His commandment, that we believe [with personal faith and confident trust] in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and [that we unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another, just as He commanded us.