1st John Chapter 4 verse 11 Holy Bible
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
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Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
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1st John 4 : 11 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Beloved introduces a solemn exhortation, as in verses 1, 7. The "if" implies no uncertainty (see on 1 John 5:9); it puts the fact more gently, but not more doubtfully, than "since." The "so" οὕτως covers both the quality and the quantity of the love. Καὶ belongs solely to ἡμεῖς: "we also on our part ought to love one another." We should have expected as the apodosis, "we also ought to love God." But this link in the thought the apostle omits as self-evident, and passes on to state what necessarily follows from it. In verse 12 he shows how loving God involves loving one's fellow-men (comp. 1 John 2:5 for a similar passage over an intermediate link).
