1 John 4:21
Good News Translation
The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.

New Revised Standard Version
The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.

Contemporary English Version
The commandment that God has given us is: "Love God and love each other!"

New American Bible
This is the commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

1 John 4:11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 3:11,14,18,23 For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another. . . .

Leviticus 19:18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. . . .

Mark 12:29-33 And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. . . .

Luke 10:37 But he said: He that shewed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner.

John 13:34,35 A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. . . .

John 15:12 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.

Romans 12:9,10 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good, . . .

Romans 13:9,10 For: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

Galatians 5:6,14 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

1 Peter 3:8 And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

1 Peter 4:8 But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.

Context
Love Comes from God
20If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not? 21And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God love also his brother.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18
Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Matthew 5:43
You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy.

Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.

John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

1 John 2:7
Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 3:11
For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.

1 John 4:20
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