1 John 4:7 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

English ASV

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

English Amplified

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

English EASY 2024

My friends, we should all love each other. It is God who makes us able to love other people. Everyone who loves other people has become a child of God. That person knows God.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God's child. And so everyone who loves knows God.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

English KJV 1611

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

English LSB

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born again because of what God has done. That person knows God.

English NIV

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

English NKJ 1982

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

English NLT

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Dear friends, let us practice loving each other, for love comes from God and those who are loving and kind show that they are the children of God, and that they are getting to know him better.

English Tyndale 1537

Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love cometh(is) of God. And every one that loveth is(all that love are) born of God, and knoweth God.

1 John 4:7 — Compare Translations