1 John 4:21 “And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his…”

1 John 4:21

And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

World English Bible

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

American Standard Version

And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

Geneva Bible 1599

And this commandement haue we of him, that he that loueth God, should loue his brother also.

Darby Translation

And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.

Young's Literal Translation

and this [is] the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

Bible in Basic English

And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

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Cross references

“And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.”

Matthew 22:37–39 Leviticus 19:18 1 John 3:11 Galatians 5:14 1 Thessalonians 4:9 1 Peter 3:8

Matthew 22:37–39 · BSB

Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

Leviticus 19:18 · BSB

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

1 John 3:11 · BSB

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

Galatians 5:14 · BSB

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Thessalonians 4:9 · BSB

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

1 Peter 3:8 · BSB

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

Also

Matthew 5:43

Matthew 5:43 · BSB

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

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

In context

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.

Read 1 John 4