1 John 4:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

1 John 4:11 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 15:12-13
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. …
Colossians 3:13
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
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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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-13)

As the Spirit of truth is known by doctrine (thus spirits are to be tried), it is known by love likewise; and so here follows a strong fervent exhortation to holy Christian love: Beloved, let us love one another, 1 John 4:7. The apostle would unite them in his love, that he might unite them in love to each other: “ Beloved, I beseech you, by the love I bear to you, that you put on unfeigned mutual…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. God’s love to us is the grand motive for our love to one another (1Jo 3:16). if--as we all admit as a fact. we ... also--as being born of God, and therefore resembling our Father who is love. In proportion as we appreciate God’s love to us, we love Him and also the brethren, the children (by regeneration) of the same God, the representatives of the unseen God.