1 John 4:16 “And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God…”

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

World English Bible

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

American Standard Version

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Geneva Bible 1599

And we haue knowen, and beleeued ye loue that God hath in vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Darby Translation

And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Young's Literal Translation

and we — we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

Bible in Basic English

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

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Cross references

“we”

Psalm 36:7–9 1 John 3:1 Psalm 18:1–3 1 John 3:16 Psalm 31:19 1 Corinthians 2:9

Psalm 36:7–9 · BSB

How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

1 John 3:1 · BSB

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

Psalm 18:1–3 · BSB

I love You, O LORD, my strength.

1 John 3:16 · BSB

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Psalm 31:19 · BSB

How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!

1 Corinthians 2:9 · BSB

Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

“God is love”

1 John 4:8 1 John 4:12 1 John 4:13

1 John 4:8 · BSB

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

1 John 4:12 · BSB

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 4:13 · BSB

By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

“and he”

1 John 3:24

1 John 3:24 · BSB

Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

Also

John 6:69

John 6:69 · BSB

We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God. ”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

17In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.

Read 1 John 4