1 John 4:19 — King James Version← Study notes
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
1 John 4:19 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 John 4:197 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 1 John 4:19
“Let us love, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 For how should we love, except He had first loved us? By loving we became friends: but He loved us as enemies, that we might be made friends. He first loved us, and gave us the gift of loving Him. We did not yet love Him: by loving we are made beautiful. If a man deformed and ill-featured love a beautiful woman, what shall he do? Or what shall a woman do, if, being deformed and ill-featured and black-complexioned, she love…
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