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if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son <i>to be</i> the Savior of the world. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>We love, because He first loved us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_john/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_john/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_john/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_john/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_john/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_john/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_john/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_john/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xvii_love_of_god.htm">Love of God and Man</a><br></span><span class="snippet">FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. Eversley. Chester Cathedral, 1872. 1 John iv. 16, 21. "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. . . . And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also." This is the first Sunday after Trinity. On it the Church begins to teach us morals,--that is, how to live a good life; and therefore she begins by teaching us the foundation of all morals,--which is love,--love to God and love to man. But which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xvii_love_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">All Saints' Day and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/first_sunday_after_trinity_god.htm">First Sunday after Trinity God is Love. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: 1 John 4, 16-21. 16 God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. 17 Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love, because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/first_sunday_after_trinity_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. III</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/christs_mission_the_revelation_of.htm">Christ's Mission the Revelation of God's Love</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.'--1 John iv. 10. This is the second of a pair of twin verses which deal with substantially the same subject under two slightly different aspects. The thought common to both is that Christ's mission is the great revelation of God's love. But in the preceding verse the point on which stress is laid is the manifestation of that love, and in our text the point mainly brought out is its <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/christs_mission_the_revelation_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_servant_as_his_lord.htm">The Servant as his Lord</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'... As He is, so are we in this world.'--1 John iv. 17. Large truths may be spoken in little words. Profundity is often supposed to be obscurity, but the deepest depth is clear. John, in his gospel and epistles, deals with the deepest realities, and with all things in their eternal aspects, but his vocabulary is the simplest in the New Testament. God and the world, life and death, love and hate, light and darkness, these are the favourite words round which his thoughts gather. Here are nine little <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_servant_as_his_lord.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/love_and_fear.htm">Love and Fear</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.'--1 John iv. 18. John has been speaking of boldness, and that naturally suggests its opposite--fear. He has been saying that perfect love produces courage in the day of judgment, because it produces likeness to Christ, who is the Judge. In my text he explains and enlarges that statement. For there is another way in which love produces boldness, and that is by its <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/love_and_fear.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_ray_and_the_reflection.htm">The Ray and the Reflection</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'We love Him, because He first loved us.'--1 John iv. 19. Very simple words! but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. He who knows that God loves him needs little more for blessedness; he who loves God back again offers more than all burnt offering and sacrifices. But it is to be observed that the correct reading of my text, as you will find in the Revised Version, omits 'Him' in the first <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_ray_and_the_reflection.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/may_the_sixth_the_perfecting.htm">May the Sixth the Perfecting of Love</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Herein is our love made perfect." --1 JOHN iv. 11-21. How? By dwelling in God and God in us. Love is not a manufacture; it is a fruit. It is not born of certain works; it springs out of certain relations. It does not come from doing something; it comes from living with Somebody. "Abide in Me." That is how love is born, for "love is of God, and God is love." How many people are striving who are not abiding. They live in a manufactory, they do not live in a home. They are trying to make something <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/may_the_sixth_the_perfecting.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/loves_logic.htm">Love's Logic</a><br></span><span class="snippet">But, dear friends, I trust after many years of instruction in the doctrines of our holy faith, I need not keep to the beaten doctrinal track, but may lead you in a parallel path, in which the same truth may be from another point. I purpose to preach an experimental sermon, and possibly this will be even more in accordance with the run of the passage and the mind of its writer, than a doctrinal discourse. We shall view the text as a fact which we have tested and proved in our own consciousness. Under <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/loves_logic.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/a_psalm_of_remembrance.htm">A Psalm of Remembrance</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Let me add another figure to render this truth yet more apparent. Suppose an eloquent foreigner, from a sunny clime, should endeavour to make you appreciate the fruits of his nation. He depicts them to you. He describes their luscious flavour, their cooling juice, their delicious sweetness; but how powerless will be his oration, compared with your vivid remembrance, if you have yourself partaken of the dainties of his land. It is even so with the good things of God; describe them as we may, we cannot <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/a_psalm_of_remembrance.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/love.htm">Love</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Can you imagine a being placed halfway between this world and heaven? Can you conceive of him as having such enlarged capacities that he could easily discern what was done in heaven, and what was done on earth? I can conceive that, before the Fall, if there had been such a being, he would have been struck with the singular harmony which existed between God's great world, called heaven, and the little world, the earth. Whenever the chimes of heaven rang, the great note of those massive bells was love; <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/love.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the_good_news_of_god/sermon_xxviii_dark_times.htm">Dark Times</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1 JOHN iv. 16-18. We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. Have we learnt this lesson? Our reading, and thinking, and praying, have been in vain, unless <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the_good_news_of_god/sermon_xxviii_dark_times.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">The Good News of God</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_john/4-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 John 4:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 John 4:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_john/4-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 John 4:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 John 4:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_john/4-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>