1 John 4:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀγαπητοί, ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους: ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν· καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ γεγέννηται, καὶ γινώσκει τὸν Θεόν.

Transliteration

Agapētoi, agapōmen allēlous: because the agapē from the Theou estin; and everyone agapōn from the Theou gegennētai, and ginōskei the Theon.

Grammar Details

• *Agapētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - beloved ones
• *agapōmen*: present subjunctive, 1st plural - let us love
• *allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another
• *agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *agapōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - loving/one who loves
• *gegennētai*: perfect passive indicative, 3rd singular - has been born
• *ginōskei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - knows
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God

Word Meanings

• *Agapētoi*: beloved/dear ones
• *agapōmen*: let us love/we should love
• *agapē*: love/divine love/selfless love
• *agapōn*: loving/one who loves
• *gegennētai*: has been born/has been begotten
• *ginōskei*: knows/understands/recognizes

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 4:8 : 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
• 1 John 2:29 : 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
• 1 John 4:20-5:1 : 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, {G4459} cannot love God whom he hath not seen. 21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever {G3588} loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
• 1 John 2:10 : 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
• 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
• 1 John 3:10-23 : 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 11 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: 12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore {G5101} slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Marvel not, {G3450} brethren, if the world hateth you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {G80} abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso {G302} hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth. 19 {G2532} Hereby {G5129} shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him: 20 because if our heart {G3754} condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; 22 and whatsoever {G1437} we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God gave us {G1325} not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.
• Deut 30:6 : 6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Gal 4:9 : 9 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?