Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Parallel translations
- KJV Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
- BSB Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- NKJV Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- NASB Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- NLT Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.
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- John 15:12–13“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
- Col 3:13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
- John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
- 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
- Luke 10:37He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
- 1 Jn 3:16–17By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- 2 Cor 8:8–9I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
- Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
- Matt 18:32–33Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
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