⁷Beloved, ^rlet us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸^sHe that loveth not ^tknoweth not God; for ^uGod is love. ⁹^vIn this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that ^wGod sent his only begotten Son into the world, ^xthat we might live through him. ¹⁰Herein is love, ^ynot that we loved God, but ^zthat he loved us, and sent his Son to be ^athe propitiation for our sins. ¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, ^bwe ought also to love one another.

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1 John 4:10: In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Footnotes

rSee ch. 3:11.
sch. 3:10.
tch. 3:6. So ch. 2:4.
uver. 16. So ver. 7. 2 Cor. 13:11.
vSo ver. 16 (Gk.). See ch. 3:16.
wSee John 3:16.
xSo ch. 5:11.
ySo John 15:16. Rom. 5:8, 10. ver. 19.
zSo ch. 3:1. See 2 Thess. 2:16.
aSee ch. 2:2.
bSee John 13:34. Comp. Matt. 18:33.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

NLTNew Living Translation

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.