1 John 4:11

Lexham English Bible

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

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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

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 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. ⁸ The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.

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
Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:14
Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I must hide. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

Genesis 4:15
Then Yahweh said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold." Then Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and he settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and those who have livestock.

Genesis 4:21
And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments.

Genesis 4:26
And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he began to call on the name of Yahweh.

Job 16:18
"O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry for help.

Isaiah 26:21
For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover 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.