Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
We love him, because he first loved us.
Holman Bible
We love
International Standard Version
We love because God first loved us.
A Conservative Version
We love him, because he first loved us.
American Standard Version
We love, because he first loved us.
Amplified
We love, because
An Understandable Version
We love [God and others] because God has first loved us.
Anderson New Testament
We love him, because he first loved us.
Bible in Basic English
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
Common New Testament
We love because he first loved us.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let us love him; since he first loved us.
Darby Translation
We love because he has first loved us.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
We love him, because he first loved us.
Godbey New Testament
Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
We love because he loved us first.
John Wesley New Testament
He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.
Julia Smith Translation
We should love him, for he first loved us.
King James 2000
We love him, because he first loved us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We love, because he first loved us.
Modern King James verseion
We love Him because He first loved us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We love him, because he loved us first.
Moffatt New Testament
We love, because He loved us first.
Montgomery New Testament
We love because He loved us first.
NET Bible
We love because he loved us first.
New Heart English Bible
We love, because he first loved us.
Noyes New Testament
We love, because he first loved us.
Sawyer New Testament
We love, because he first loved us.
The Emphasized Bible
We, love, because, he, first loved us: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
We love him, because he first loved us.
Twentieth Century New Testament
We love, because God first loved us.
Webster
We love him, because he first loved us.
Weymouth New Testament
We love because God first loved us.
Williams New Testament
We love, because He loved us first.
World English Bible
We love him, because he first loved us.
Worrell New Testament
We love, because He first loved us.
Worsley New Testament
We love Him, because He first loved us. If any one say,
Themes
Condescension of God » Scriptures relating to
God, Love Of » The source of our love to him
Love to God » Produced by » The love of God to us
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Examples of love to God
Topics
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Watsons
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:19
Prayers for 1 John 4:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
18 fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love; 19 we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us; 20 if any one may say -- 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
Cross References
1 John 4:10
in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
Luke 7:47
therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'
John 3:16
for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Galatians 5:22
And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
John 15:16
'Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
Ephesians 2:3-5
among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
Titus 3:3-5
for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;