Parallel Verses
Amplified
We have come to know [by personal observation and experience], and have believed [with deep, consistent faith] the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Holman Bible
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
International Standard Version
We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
A Conservative Version
And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
American Standard Version
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
An Understandable Version
And we have known [with certainty] and have believed [with assurance] that God has truly loved us. God's [very nature] is love and the person who [continually] loves [Him and others] lives in [fellowship with] God [continually], and God [continually] lives in that person's heart.
Anderson New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.
Bible in Basic English
And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
Common New Testament
So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Darby Translation
And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And we have known, and believed the love which God has in us. God is love; wherefore, he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.
Godbey New Testament
And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Goodspeed New Testament
So we know and believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love keeps in union with God, and God with him.
John Wesley New Testament
And we know and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.
Julia Smith Translation
And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him.
King James 2000
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
Modern King James verseion
And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in him.
Moffatt New Testament
well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Montgomery New Testament
And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.
NET Bible
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
New Heart English Bible
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Noyes New Testament
And we have known and believed the love that God hath in regard to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Sawyer New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.
The Emphasized Bible
And, we, have come to understand and to trust the love which, God, hath, in us. God, is, love; and, he that abideth in love, in God, abideth, and, God, in him abideth.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
Webster
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love: and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Weymouth New Testament
And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.
Williams New Testament
So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.
World English Bible
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Worrell New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.
Worsley New Testament
And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us: for God is love; and he, that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Youngs Literal Translation
and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.
Themes
God » Is declared to be » Love
God » Who the lord God dwells in
Love » Those that dwell in love
God, Love Of » Manifested towards » His saints
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Pisteuo
theos
θεός
theos
θεός
theos
θεός
theos
God, god, godly, God-ward ,
God, god, godly, God-ward ,
God, god, godly, God-ward ,
Usage: 1151
Usage: 1151
Usage: 1151
Agape
ἀγάπη
Agape
love, charity, dear, charitably+ 9, feast of charity
Usage: 105
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 John 4:16
Devotionals containing 1 John 4:16
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:16
Images 1 John 4:16
Prayers for 1 John 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
15 Whoever confesses and acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 We have come to know [by personal observation and experience], and have believed [with deep, consistent faith] the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him. 17 In this [union and fellowship with Him], love is completed and perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him]; because as He is, so are we in this world.
Cross References
1 John 3:24
The one who habitually keeps His commandments [obeying His word and following His precepts, abides and] remains in Him, and He in him. By this we know and have the proof that He [really] abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us [as a gift].
1 John 3:1
See what an incredible quality of love the Father has shown to us, that we would [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1 John 4:8-10
The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.]
Psalm 18:1-3
Psalm 31:19
How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who [reverently] fear You,
Which You have prepared for those who take refuge in You,
Psalm 36:7-9
How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
The children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
Isaiah 64:4
For from days of old no one has heard, nor has ear perceived,
Nor has the eye
Who works and acts in behalf of the one who [gladly] waits for Him.
John 6:69
We have believed and confidently trusted, and [even more] we have come to know [by personal observation and experience] that You are the Holy One of God [the Christ, the Son of the living God].”
1 Corinthians 2:9
but just as it is written [in Scripture],
And which have not entered the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and who gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed].”
1 John 3:16
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 4:12-13
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.