1 John 4:13

Contextual Overview

⁷Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁷ Beloued, let vs loue one another; for loue is of God: and euery one that loueth, is borne of God and knoweth God. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁷ Beloved, let's love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁷ Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God's child and knows God. ⁷My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ⁷Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁷ My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows that we have been given new life. We are now God's children, and we know him.

Bible Verse Review
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1 John 4:15, 1 John 4:16, 1 John 3:24, John 14:20-26, Romans 8:9-17, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 3:17, 1 Corinthians 6:19, Galatians 5:22-25, Ephesians 2:20-22

Reciprocal: John 3:21 - that his John 14:17 - but John 16:14 - glorify John 17:26 - and I Romans 8:16 - Spirit Romans 16:7 - were 1 Corinthians 1:9 - the fellowship Ephesians 2:22 - an Colossians 2:2 - being 1 John 2:3 - hereby 1 John 2:5 - hereby 1 John 2:20 - ye have 1 John 2:24 - ye also 1 John 4:4 - greater

Cross-References

Job 15:22
He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness;he is destined for the sword.

Job 15:22
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Job 15:22
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

Job 15:22
Evil people give up trying to escape from the darkness; it has been decided that they will die by the sword.

Job 15:22
He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

Job 15:22
"He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered], And he is destined for the sword [of God's vengeance].

Job 15:22
"He does not believe that he will return from darkness, And he is destined for the sword.

Job 15:22
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

Job 15:22
He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,.... That there is a communion between God and us, and a communication of his love and grace to us, and an exercise of grace upon him; for God dwells in his people by his Spirit and grace, and they dwell in him by the exercise of faith and love upon him: and this is known,

because he hath given us of his Spirit: not of the essence and nature of the Spirit, which is the same with the nature of the Father and of the Son, and is incommunicable; but either of the gifts of the Spirit, which are divided to every man as he pleases, and which being bestowed on men, and used by them, for the profit and advantage of the church of God, show that God is with them, and dwells among them of a truth; or of the graces of the Spirit, such as faith, hope, and love, which are each the gifts of God; and these being bestowed and exercised, are proofs of the mutual indwelling of God and his people; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hereby know we that we dwell in him - Here is another, or an additional evidence of it.

Because he hath given us of his Spirit - He has imparted the influences of that Spirit to our souls, producing “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,” etc., Galatians 5:22-23. It was one of the promises which the Lord Jesus made to his disciples that he would send the Holy Spirit to be with them after he should be withdrawn from them, John 14:16-17, John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7, and one of the clearest evidences which we can have that we are the children of God, is derived from the influences of that Spirit on our hearts. See this sentiment illustrated in the notes at Romans 8:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. Hereby know we, c.] See note on 1 John 3:24.