Parallel Bible results for "1-john 4:7-16"

1 John 4:7-16

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7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.
9 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.
10 In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.
15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
16 And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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