1 John 4:11
New International Version
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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

English Standard Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Berean Standard Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Berean Literal Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

King James Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

New King James Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

New American Standard Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

NASB 1995
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

NASB 1977
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Legacy Standard Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Amplified Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another.

Christian Standard Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

American Standard Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Beloved, if God loves us in this way, we are indebted also to love one another.

Contemporary English Version
Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.

English Revised Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love each other.

Good News Translation
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.

International Standard Version
Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love one another.

Literal Standard Version
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another;

Majority Standard Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

New American Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.

NET Bible
Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

New Revised Standard Version
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.

New Heart English Bible
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Webster's Bible Translation
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Weymouth New Testament
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

World English Bible
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Young's Literal Translation
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Love Comes from God
10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.…

Cross References
1 John 2:7
Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

1 John 3:11
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

2 John 1:5
And now I urge you, dear lady--not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning--that we love one another.


Treasury of Scripture

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

1 John 3:16,17,23
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren…

Matthew 18:32,33
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: …

Luke 10:37
And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

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1 John 4
1. He warns them not to believe all who boast of the Spirit;
7. and exhorts to brotherly love.














Verse 11. - Beloved introduces a solemn exhortation, as in verses 1, 7. The "if" implies no uncertainty (see on 1 John 5:9); it puts the fact more gently, but not more doubtfully, than "since." The "so" οὕτως covers both the quality and the quantity of the love. Καὶ belongs solely to ἡμεῖς: "we also on our part ought to love one another." We should have expected as the apodosis, "we also ought to love God." But this link in the thought the apostle omits as self-evident, and passes on to state what necessarily follows from it. In verse 12 he shows how loving God involves loving one's fellow-men (comp. 1 John 2:5 for a similar passage over an intermediate link).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Beloved,
Ἀγαπητοί (Agapētoi)
Adjective - Vocative Masculine Plural
Strong's 27: From agapao; beloved.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

God
Θεὸς (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

so
οὕτως (houtōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3779: Thus, so, in this manner. Or (referring to what precedes or follows).

loved
ἠγάπησεν (ēgapēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

us,
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

we
ἡμεῖς (hēmeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

also
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

ought
ὀφείλομεν (opheilomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 3784: Or, its prolonged form opheileo probably from the base of ophelos; to owe; figuratively, to be under obligation; morally, to fail in duty.

to love
ἀγαπᾶν (agapan)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

one another.
ἀλλήλους (allēlous)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.


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