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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
1 John 4:11
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Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.
Beloued, if God so loued vs, wee ought also to loue one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Dear friends, if God loved us that much we also should love each other.
My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other.
Beloved friends, if this is how God loved us, we likewise ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other.
Beloued, if God so loued vs, we ought also to loue one another.
My beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
Beloved, if God loved us so, we also ought to love one another.
Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love one another.Matthew 18:33; John 15:12-13; 1 John 3:16;">[xr]
MY beloved, if Aloha so hath loved us, we also are indebted to love one another.
My beloved, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Dearely beloued, yf God so loued vs, we ought also to loue one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God loved us so, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Ye moost dere britheren, if God louede vs, we owen to loue ech other.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.
Dear friends, if God loved us that much, then we should love each other.
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another.
My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved yf god so loved vs we ought also to love one another.
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
Dearly beloued, yf God so loued vs, we oughte also to loue one another.
beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.
Pards, if this is how much God loves us, then we should pay that love forward to others.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 John 3:16, 1 John 3:17, 1 John 3:23, Matthew 18:32, Matthew 18:33, Luke 10:37, John 13:34, John 15:12, John 15:13, 2 Corinthians 8:8, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Ephesians 4:31, Ephesians 4:32, Ephesians 5:1, Ephesians 5:2, Colossians 3:13
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:22 - General Romans 12:10 - kindly 1 Corinthians 13:4 - is kind 1 John 2:8 - which 1 John 4:21 - General
Cross-References
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
"Not so!" replied the LORD. "If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold." And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to invoke the name of the LORD.
O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and no longer conceal her slain.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us,.... As to send his Son to be a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, and to obtain eternal life for us through his sufferings and death: the apostle uses the same language his Lord and master did, John 3:16;
we ought also to love one another; for those who are the objects of God's love ought to be the objects of ours; and if God has loved our fellow Christians and brethren to such a degree, as to send his Son to die for them, we ought to love them too; and if we are interested in the same love, the obligation is still the greater; and if God loved them with so great a love, when they did not love him, but were enemies to him, then surely we ought to love them now they are become the friends of God, and ours also; as God loved them freely, and when unlovely, and us likewise in the same manner, and under the same circumstances, then we ought to love, and continue to love the saints, though there may be something in their temper and conduct disagreeable: God is to be imitated in his love; and his love to us, which is unmerited and matchless, should influence and engage us to the love of the brethren, who have a far greater claim to our love than we can make to the love of God; and which indeed is none at all, but what he is pleased to give us.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another -
- Because he is so much exalted above us, and if he has loved those who were so inferior and so unworthy, we ought to love those who are on a level with us;
(2)Because it is only in this way that we can show that we have his Spirit; and,
(3)Because it is the nature of love to seek the happiness of all. There are much stronger reasons why we should love one another than there were why God should love us; and unless we do this, we can have no evidence that we are his children.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. If God so loved us — Without any reason or consideration on our part, and without any desert in us; we ought also, in like manner, to love one another, and not suspend our love to a fellow-creature, either on his moral worth or his love to us. We should love one another for God's sake; and then, no unkind carriage of a brother would induce us to withdraw our love from him; for if it have GOD for its motive and model, it will never fail.
