1 John 4:19 “We love because He first loved us.”

1 John 4:19

We love because He first loved us.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

We love him, because he first loved us.

World English Bible

We love him, because he first loved us.

American Standard Version

We love, because he first loved us.

Geneva Bible 1599

We loue him, because he loued vs first.

Darby Translation

We love because he has first loved us.

Young's Literal Translation

we — we love him, because He — He first loved us;

Bible in Basic English

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

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Cross references

“We love him, because he first loved us.”

1 John 4:10 John 3:16 John 15:16 Titus 3:3–5 Luke 7:47 Ephesians 2:3–5

1 John 4:10 · BSB

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

John 3:16 · BSB

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 15:16 · BSB

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

Titus 3:3–5 · BSB

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Luke 7:47 · BSB

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

Ephesians 2:3–5 · BSB

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

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

In context

18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

20If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

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