1 John 4:7 Cross References - Riverside

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and every one who loves has been born of God and knows God.

³ This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

⁶ Because it is the God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts bringing the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

⁹ But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how are you turning back to the weak and beggarly elementary lessons to which you wish to be slaves again?

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness,

⁹ Regarding brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you. For you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰ and you do the same to all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still further

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control.

²² Now that you have made your souls holy by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, you must love one another steadily from your hearts,

¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light and there is no stumbling block in him.

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.

¹⁰ By this the children of God are plain to see, also the children of the Devil. Every one who is not doing righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. ¹¹ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we must love one another. ¹² Not like Cain, who was of the Wicked One and killed his brother. And for what reason did he kill him? Because his own deeds were wicked and his brother's righteous. ¹³ Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren. Whoever does not love remains in death. ¹⁵ Every one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has life eternal remaining in him. ¹⁶ By this we have come to know love — that Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But if any one has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts away his sympathies from him, how can the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ By this we shall know that we are of the truth and shall give confidence to our hearts in his presence, ²⁰ because if our hearts condemn us God is greater than our hearts and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his command — to believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he has given us command.

⁸ He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

¹² No one has ever seen God. If we love one another God abides in us and his love is made perfect in us.

²⁰ If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.