1 John 4:9-19

9 By this the love of God was manifested 1in us, that 2God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, 3not that we loved God, but that 4He loved us and sent His Son to be 5the propitiation for our sins.
11 6Beloved, if God so loved us, 7we also ought to love one another.
12 8No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His 9love is perfected in us.
13 10By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
14 We have seen and 11testify that the Father has 12sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 13Whoever * confesses that 14Jesus is the Son of God, God 15abides in him, and he in God.
16 16We have come to know and have believed the love which God has 17for us. 18God is love, and the one who 19abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
17 By this, 20love is perfected with us, so that we may have 21confidence in 22the day of judgment; because 23as He is, so also are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but 24perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not 25perfected in love.
19 26We love, because He first loved us.

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Cross References 26

  • 1. John 9:3; 1 John 4:16
  • 2. John 3:16; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 5:11
  • 3. Romans 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19
  • 4. John 3:16; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11
  • 5. 1 John 2:2
  • 6. 1 John 2:7
  • 7. 1 John 4:7
  • 8. John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16; 1 John 4:20
  • 9. 1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:17
  • 10. Romans 8:9; 1 John 3:24
  • 11. John 15:27; 1 John 1:2
  • 12. John 3:17; John 4:42; 1 John 2:2
  • 13. 1 John 2:23
  • 14. Romans 10:9; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:2; 1 John 5:1, 5
  • 15. 1 John 2:24; 1 John 3:24
  • 16. John 6:69
  • 17. John 9:3; 1 John 4:9
  • 18. 1 John 4:7, 8
  • 19. 1 John 4:12
  • 20. 1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:12
  • 21. 1 John 2:28
  • 22. Matthew 10:15
  • 23. John 17:22; 1 John 2:6; 1 John 3:1, 7, 16
  • 24. Romans 8:15
  • 25. 1 John 4:12
  • 26. 1 John 4:10

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