New American Standard Bible 1995
1 John 4:10-21
10In this is love, 1not that we loved God, but that 2He loved us and sent His Son to be 3the propitiation for our sins. 114Beloved, if God so loved us, 5we also ought to love one another. 126No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His 7love is perfected in us. 138By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14We have seen and 9testify that the Father has 10sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
1511Whoever confesses that 12Jesus is the Son of God, God 13abides in him, and he in God. 1614We have come to know and have believed the love which God has 1516for us. 17God is love, and the one who 18abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17By this, 19love is perfected with us, so that we may have 20confidence in 21the day of judgment; because 22as He is, so also are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love; but 23perfect love casts out fear, because fear 24involves punishment, and the one who fears is not 25perfected in love. 1926We love, because He first loved us. 2027If someone says, “I love God,” and 28hates his brother, he is a 29liar; for 30the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, 31cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21And 32this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God 33should love his brother also.
Notes
- 1. 1 John 4:10 Rom 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19 ↩
- 2. 1 John 4:10 John 3:16f; 1 John 4:9; 5:11 ↩
- 3. 1 John 4:10 1 John 2:2 ↩
- 4. 1 John 4:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
- 5. 1 John 4:11 1 John 4:7 ↩
- 6. 1 John 4:12 John 1:18; 1 Tim 6:16; 1 John 4:20 ↩
- 7. 1 John 4:12 1 John 2:5; 4:17f ↩
- 8. 1 John 4:13 Rom 8:9; 1 John 3:24 ↩
- 9. 1 John 4:14 John 15:27; 1 John 1:2 ↩
- 10. 1 John 4:14 John 3:17; 4:42; 1 John 2:2 ↩
- 11. 1 John 4:15 1 John 2:23 ↩
- 12. 1 John 4:15 Rom 10:9; 1 John 3:23; 4:2; 5:1, 5 ↩
- 13. 1 John 4:15 1 John 2:24; 3:24 ↩
- 14. 1 John 4:16 John 6:69 ↩
- 15. 1 John 4:16 Lit in ↩
- 16. 1 John 4:16 John 9:3; 1 John 4:9 ↩
- 17. 1 John 4:16 1 John 4:7, 8 ↩
- 18. 1 John 4:16 1 John 4:12f ↩
- 19. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:5; 4:12 ↩
- 20. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:28 ↩
- 21. 1 John 4:17 Matt 10:15 ↩
- 22. 1 John 4:17 John 17:22; 1 John 2:6; 3:1, 7, 16 ↩
- 23. 1 John 4:18 Rom 8:15 ↩
- 24. 1 John 4:18 Lit has ↩
- 25. 1 John 4:18 1 John 4:12 ↩
- 26. 1 John 4:19 1 John 4:10 ↩
- 27. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6, 8, 10; 2:4 ↩
- 28. 1 John 4:20 1 John 2:9, 11 ↩
- 29. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6 ↩
- 30. 1 John 4:20 1 John 3:17 ↩
- 31. 1 John 4:20 1 Pet 1:8; 1 John 4:12 ↩
- 32. 1 John 4:21 Lev 19:18; Matt 5:43f; 22:37ff; John 13:34 ↩
- 33. 1 John 4:21 1 John 3:11 ↩
Commentaries on 1 John 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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