1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Cross References (14)

  • 1 John 4:20 (43)

    If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has

  • 1 John 4:8 (42)

    Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  • 1 Peter 1:22 (41)

    Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one

  • 1 John 2:10 (35)

    Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

  • Galatians 5:22 (31)

    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

  • 2 Timothy 1:7 (26)

    For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:9–10 (26)

    Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love

  • 1 John 4:12 (22)

    No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

  • 1 John 3:10–23 (20)

    By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness

  • 1 John 2:29 (19)

    If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

  • Deuteronomy 30:6 (16)

    The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your he

  • John 17:3 (15)

    Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:6 (14)

    For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the kno

  • Galatians 4:9 (13)

    But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless p