A moment in scripture
1 John 4:7
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 John 4:5
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
- 1 John 4:6
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
- 1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
- 1 John 4:9
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.