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NASB					1 John 4:7 ¶ ^ABeloved²⁷, let us ^Blove²⁵ one²⁴⁰ another²⁴⁰, for love²⁶ is from God²³¹⁶; and ^Ceveryone³⁹⁵⁶ who loves²⁵ is ¹ ^Dborn¹⁰⁸⁰ of God²³¹⁶ and ^Eknows¹⁰⁹⁷ God²³¹⁶.
AMPLIFIED 2015					1 John 4:7 ¶ Beloved, let us [unselfishly] ¹love and seek the best for one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves [others] is born of God and knows God [through personal experience].

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1 John 2:7 ¶ Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 3:11 ¶ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.

1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.

1 Cor 8:3 but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

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Greek Heb.

agapaô; of unc. or.; to love:--beloved(8), felt a love for(1), love(1), love(75), loved(38), loves(20).

agapê; from 25; love, goodwill:--beloved(1), love(1), love(112), love feasts(1), love's(1).

agapêtos; from 25; beloved:--beloved(60), very dear(1).

240

allêlôn; a recip. pron.; of one another:--another(1), each(1), each other(1), one another(90), one another's(2), other's(1), themselves(1), together*(2), yourselves(1).

1080

gennaô; from genna (descent, birth); to beget, to bring forth:--bear(1), bearing children(1), became the father of(4), became...father(1), begotten(4), bore(1), born(41), Child(1), conceived(1), father(37), Father(1), gave(1), gives birth(1), produce(1).

1097

ginôskô; from a prim. root gnô-; to come to know, recognize, perceive:--ascertaining(1), aware(7), certainty(1), come to know(1), comprehend(1), felt(1), find(3), found(2), kept...a virgin*(1), knew(13), know(104), know how(1), knowing(3), known(25), knows(14), learn(1), learned(1), perceived(1), perceiving(2), put(1), realize(3), recognize(7), recognized(1), recognizing(1), sure(4), take notice(1), unaware*(2), understand(11), understood(6), virgin*(1).

2316

theos; of unc. or.; God, a god:--divinely(1), God(1267), god(6), God's(27), God-fearing(1), godly(2), godly*(1), gods(8), Lord(1).

3956

pas; a prim. word; all, every:--all(731), all the things(7), all...things(1), all kinds(1), all men(14), all people(4), all respects(3), all things(126), all*(1), always*(3), any(16), any at all(1), anyone(3), anything(3), anything*(1), continually*(6), entire(4), every(128), every form(1), every kind(9), every respect(1), every way(2), everyone(71), everyone's(1), everyone*(1), everything(45), forever*(1), full(2), great(2), no*(15), none*(1), nothing(1), nothing*(1), one(4), perfectly(1), quite(1), whatever(3), whatever*(1), whoever(7), whole(18).

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