1 John 4:4,8,19
1 John 4:4-6 The Message (MSG)
My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world’s language and the world eats it up. But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.
1 John 4:7-10 The Message (MSG)
My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
1 John 4:19 The Message (MSG)
We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
1 John 4:4 King James Version (KJV)
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 4:8 King James Version (KJV)
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:4 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:8 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:19 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
We love, because He first loved us.
1 John 4:4 New Century Version (NCV)
My dear children, you belong to God and have defeated them; because God’s Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world.
1 John 4:8 New Century Version (NCV)
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:4 American Standard Version (ASV)
Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
1 John 4:8 American Standard Version (ASV)
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:4 New International Version (NIV)
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:8 New International Version (NIV)
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
I John 4:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].
1 John 4:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.]
1 John 4:4 New Living Translation (NLT)
But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.
1 John 4:8 New Living Translation (NLT)
But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:19 New Living Translation (NLT)
We love each other because he loved us first.
1 John 4:4 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Little children, you can be certain that you belong to God and have conquered them, for the One who is living in you is far greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:8 The Passion Translation (TPT)
The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:19 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.
1 John 4:4 English Standard Version Revision 2016 (ESV)
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:8 English Standard Version Revision 2016 (ESV)
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
