1 John 4:7
Neutral key: nrf1:1JN.004.007
About the book 1 John Trend of this verse since 2000
Which lectionaries prescribe this verse
Bible text
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Text: World English Bible (Classic, with deuterocanon). The World English Bible is in the Public Domain. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org.. Licence: Public domain (World English Bible). Source: eBible.org eng-web USFM. Footnotes and cross references are left out; the rights holder has not reviewed or endorsed this display.
Statistics
- 17 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 17 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #923 Rank Rank 923 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 30,735 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
17 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
No person of the Bible is linked to this verse yet.
Topics of this verse
- Loving each other
- Gods love
- Gods love for us
- Being born again
- Mark of the beast
- Love
- Real love
- Loving others
The strongest topics first, by the votes of the OpenBible.info readers.
Persons: STEPBible TIPNR and MACULA; topics: OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Sources and credits
Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse unit has the following labels (mapping release R8); labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- Vers of the Day Website Data: 7 occurrences
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 6 occurrences
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive: 4 occurrences
Occurrences
17 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Feb 1, 2025
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Nov 8, 2023
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Dec 18, 2022
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Nov 18, 2021
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 1, 2021
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Mar 6, 2020
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 1, 2017
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 1, 2013
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 1, 2009
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 1, 2005
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 1, 2001
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Jan 1, 1898 – Dec 31, 1963
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7-8
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, The Four Loves, Introduction
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- CS Lewis
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Church of England
- Language
- English
- Venue
- Oxford
- Venue
- Cambridge
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1055 – Dec 31, 1126
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on 1 John
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Theophylact of Ohrid
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 667 – Dec 31, 735
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on the Catholic Epistles
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Bede
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- England
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 563 – Dec 31, 637
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, CATENA
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Andreas of Caesarea
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0545
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7-11
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on 1 John
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Oecumenius
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 354 – Dec 31, 430
- Cited as
- 1 John 4:7
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Ten Homilies on 1 John
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- Augustine of Hippo
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1 / CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 110
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 110, published Nov 6, 2026, 2:30 AM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8- Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. This page shows no Bible text. How we count