1 John 4:11

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another.

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

Hebrew Names Version
Beloved, if God loved us so, we also 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 Revised Standard
Beloved, since God loved us so much, 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁷ Beloved! let us be loving one another; because, love, is, of God, and, whosoever loveth, of God, hath been born, and is getting to understand God: ⁸ He that doth not love, doth not understand God, because, God, is, love. ⁹ Herein, hath the love of God in us, been made manifest, that, his only-begotten Son, God sent into the world, in order that we might live through him. ¹⁰ Herein, is love: not that, we, have loved God, but that, he, loved us, and sent forth his Son, as a propitiation concerning our sins. ¹¹ Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another. ¹² Upon God, hath no one, at any time, gazed: If we love one another, God, in us, abideth, and, his love, hath been perfected within us. ¹³ Hereby, perceive we - that, in him, are we abiding, and, he, in us, - in that, of his Spirit, hath he given unto 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
Then said Yahweh God unto the serpent - Because thou hast done this, Accursed, art thou above every tame-beast, and above every wild-beast of the field, - on thy belly, shall thou go, and dust, shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 4:14
Lo! thou has driven me out, this day, from off the face of the ground And from thy face, shall I be hid, So shall I become a wanderer and a fugitive in the earth. And it shall come to pass, whosoever findeth me, will slay me.

Genesis 4:15
And Yahweh said to him - Not so, whosoever slayeth Cain seven - fold, shall it be avenged. So Yahweh set, for Cain, a sign, that none finding him should smite him.

Genesis 4:16
So Cain went forth from the presence of Yahweh, - and dwelt in the land of Nod, eastward of Eden.

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

Genesis 4:20
And Adah bare Jabal, - he, was father of such as dwell in tents, and have cattle;

Genesis 4:21
and, the name of his brother, was Jubal, - he, was father of everyone handling lyre and flute,

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth - to him also, was born a son, and he called his name Enosh, - then, was a beginning made, to call on the name of Yahweh.

Job 16:18
O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for mine outcry.

Isaiah 26:21
For lo! Yahweh, is coming forth out of his place, To visit the iniquity of earths inhabitant upon him, - Therefore shall the earth unveil her shed-blood, And throw a covering, no longer over 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.