DB1 | God is Love 1Jn.4.7-21 | NEB Contents | notes| 4 | New English Bible (New Testament) | Passage | New Testament in Greek (UBS.Ed.26) |
| 7 | Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God. Everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God, | God is Love 1Jn.4.7-21 | Ἀγαπητοί, ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους, ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστιν, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ γεγέννηται καὶ γινώσκει τὸν θεόν. |
| 8 | but the unloving know nothing of God. For God is love; | ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν οὐκ ἐγνω τὸν θεόν, ὅτι ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν. | |
| 9 | and his love was disclosed to us in this, that he sent his only Son into the world to bring us life. | ἐν τούτῳ ἐφανερώθη ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν, ὅτι τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν μονογενῆ ἀπέσταλκεν ὁ θεὸς εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἵνα ζήσωμεν δῖ αὐτοῦ. | |
| 10 | The love I speak of is not our love for God, but the love he showed to us in sending his Son as the remedy for the defilement of our sins. | ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἠγαπήκαμεν τὸν θεόν, ἀλλ' ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἱλασμὸν περὶ τῶν ἀμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν. | |
| 11 | If God thus loved us, dear friends, we in turn are bound to love one another. | Ἀγαπητοί, εἰ οὑτως ὁ θεὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν. | |
| 12 | Though God has never been seen by any man. God himself dwells in us if we love one another; his love is brought to perfection within us. | θεὸν οὐδεὶς πώποτε τεθέαται· ἐὰν ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους, ὁ θεὸς ἐν ἡμῖν μένει καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν τετελειωμένη ἐστιν. | |
| 13 | Here is the proof that we dwell in him and he dwells in us: he has imparted his Spirit to us. | Ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ μένομεν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος αὐτοῦ δέδωκεν ἡμῖν. | |
| 14 | Moreover, we have seen for ourselves, and we attest, that the Father sent the Son to be the saviour of the world, | καὶ ἡμεῖς τεθεάμεθα καὶ μαρτυροῦμεν ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ ἀπέσταλκεν τὸν υἱὸν σωτῆρα τοῦ κόσμου. | |
| 15 | and if a man acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him and he dwells in God. | ὃς ἐὰν ὁμολογήσῃ ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, ὁ θεὸς ἐν αὐτῷ μένει καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν τῷ θεῷ. | |
| 16 | Thus we have come to know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love; he who dwells in love is dwelling in God, and God in him. | καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐγνώκαμεν καὶ πεπιστεύκαμεν τὴν ἀγάπην ἣν ἐχει ὁ θεὸς ἐν ἡμῖν. Ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν, καὶ ὁ μένων ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ ἐν τῷ θεῷ μένει καὶ ὁ θεὸς ἐν αὐτῷ μέν ει. | |
| 17 | This is for us the perfection of love, to have confidence on the day of judgement, and this we can have, because even in this world we are as he is. | ἐν τούτῳ τετελείωται ἡ ἀγάπη μεθ' ἡμῶν, ἵνα παρρησίαν ἐχωμεν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κρίσεως, ὅτι καθὼς ἐκεῖνός ἐστιν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ. | |
| 18 | There is no room for fear in love; perfect love banishes fear. For fear brings with it the pains of judgement, and anyone who is afraid has not attained to love in its perfection. | φόβος οὐκ ἐστιν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ, ἀλλ' ἡ τελεία ἀγάπη ἐξω βάλλει τὸν φόβον, ὅτι ὁ φόβος κόλασιν ἐχει, ὁ δὲ φοβούμενος οὐ τετελείωται ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ. | |
| 19 | We love because he loved us first. | ἡμεῖς ἀγαπῶμεν, ὅτι αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς. | |
| 20 | But if a man says, 'I love God', while hating his brother, he is a liar. If he does not love the brother whom he has seen, it cannot be that he loves God whom he has not seen. | ἐάν τις εἰπῃ ὅτι Ἀγαπῶ τὸν θεόν, καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ μισῇ, ψεύστης ἐστίν· ὁ γὰρ μὴ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ ὃν ἑώρακεν, τὸν θεὸν ὃν οὐχ ἑώρακεν οὐ δύναται ἀγαπᾶν. | |
| 21 | And indeed this command comes to us from Christ himself: that he who loves God must also love his brother. | καὶ ταύτην τὴν ἐντολὴν ἐχομεν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, ἵνα ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὸν θεὸν ἀγαπᾷ καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ. | |