1 John 4:11

Young's Literal Translation

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

King James Version (1611)
Beloued, if God so loued vs, wee ought also to loue one another.

King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

English Standard Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

New American Standard Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

New Century Version
Dear friends, if God loved us that much we also should love each other.

THE MESSAGE
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!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Berean Standard Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Contemporary English Version
Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other.

Complete Jewish Bible
Beloved friends, if this is how God loved us, we likewise ought to love one another.

Darby Translation
Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Easy-to-Read Version
That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beloued, if God so loued vs, we ought also to loue one another.

George Lamsa Translation
My beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Good News Translation
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.

Lexham English Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Literal Translation
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Amplified Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another.

American Standard Version
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.

Hebrew Names Version
Beloved, if God loved us so, we also ought to love one another.

International Standard Version
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]

Etheridge Translation
MY beloved, if Aloha so hath loved us, we also are indebted to love one another.

Murdock Translation
My beloved, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Dearely beloued, yf God so loued vs, we ought also to loue one another.

English Revised Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

World English Bible
Beloved, if God loved us so, we also ought to love one another.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Weymouth's New Testament
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye moost dere britheren, if God louede vs, we owen to loue ech other.

Update Bible Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Webster's Bible Translation
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

New English Translation
Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

New King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

New Living Translation
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

New Life Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us that much, then we should love each other.

New Revised Standard
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Revised Standard Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Beloved yf god so loved vs we ought also to love one another.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Dearly beloued, yf God so loued vs, we oughte also to loue one another.

Mace New Testament (1729)
beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Pards, if this is how much God loves us, then we should pay that love forward to others.

Contextual Overview

⁷ 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; ⁸ he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. ⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him; ¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love; ¹² God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us; ¹³ in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.

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

Genesis 3:14
And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, `Because thou hast done this, cursed [art] thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life;

Genesis 4:14
lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'

Genesis 4:15
And Jehovah saith to him, `Therefore -- of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;' and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.

Genesis 4:16
And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech taketh to himself two wives, the name of the one Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
And Adah beareth Jabal, he hath been father of those inhabiting tents and purchased possessions;

Genesis 4:21
and the name of his brother [is] Jubal, he hath been father of every one handling harp and organ.

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.

Job 16:18
O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.

Isaiah 26:21
For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more 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 -

1. 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.