4:7 亲爱的弟兄啊,我们应当彼此相爱,因为爱是从 神来的。凡有爱心的,都是由 神而生,并且认识 神。
4:8 没有爱心的,就不认识 神,因为 神就是爱。
4:9 神差他独生子到世间来,使我们藉着他得生, 神爱我们的心在此就显明了。
4:10 不是我们爱 神,乃是 神爱我们,差他的儿子,为我们的罪作了挽回祭,这就是爱了。
4:11 亲爱的弟兄啊, 神既是这样爱我们,我们也当彼此相爱。
4:12 从来没有人见过 神,我们若彼此相爱, 神就住在我们里面,爱他的心在我们里面得以完全了。
4:13 神将他的灵赐给我们,从此就知道我们是住在他里面,他也住在我们里面。
4:14 父差子作世人的救主,这是我们所看见且作见证的。
4:15 凡认耶稣为 神儿子的, 神就住在他里面,他也住在 神里面。
4:16 神爱我们的心,我们也知道、也信。神就是爱!住在爱里面的,就是住在 神里面, 神也住在他里面。
4:17 这样,爱在我们里面得以完全,我们就可以在审判的日子坦然无惧。因为他如何,我们在这世上也如何。
4:18 爱里没有惧怕;爱既完全,就把惧怕除去,因为惧怕里含着刑罚,惧怕的人在爱里未得完全。
4:19 我们爱,因为 神先爱我们。
4:20 人若说“我爱 神”,却恨他的弟兄,就是说谎话的;不爱他所看见的弟兄,就不能爱没有看见的 神(注:有古卷作“怎能爱没有看见的 神呢?”)。
4:21 爱 神的,也当爱弟兄,这是我们从 神所受的命令。
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.
16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19We love because he first loved us.
20If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.