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1 John 4:19

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We love him, because he first loved us.

We {G2249} love {G25} him {G846}, because {G3754} he {G846} first {G4413} loved {G25} us {G2248}.

We ourselves love now because he loved us first.

We love because He first loved us.

We love, because he first loved us.

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Cross-References

  • 1 John 4:10 (56 votes)

    Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

  • John 15:16 (36 votes)

    Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

  • John 3:16 (34 votes)

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:14 (22 votes)

    For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

  • 2 Corinthians 5:15 (22 votes)

    And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

  • Titus 3:3 (22 votes)

    For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.

  • Titus 3:5 (22 votes)

    Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;