1 John 4:19 (WEB)
We love him, because he first loved us.
Catechism · 2
The Virtues
“He no longer stands before God as a slave, in servile fear, or as a mercenary looking for wages, but as a son responding to the love of him who "first loved us":” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Jn 4:19.
Jesus Died Crucified
“By giving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his plan for us is one of benevolent love, prior to any merit on our part: "In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins."” — Catechism footnote: I John 4:10; 4:19.
Fathers and councils · 9
Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(1 John 4:19) The Father then loves us, because we love the Son, (Diligamus Deum, Vulg.) it being from the Father and the Son, that we receive the love from the Father and the Son.” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.7Conference XI
“We therefore love because God first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18, 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For thus saith the Apostle John, “We love God, because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 19.
Read the whole comment““Let us love, because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 19.
Read the whole comment“And with regard to God Himself, its object is that, even if it were an irksome task to love Him, it may now at least cease to be irksome for us to return His love, seeing that “He first loved us,” and “spared not His own only Son, but delivered Him up for us all.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 10, 19
Read the whole comment“For man has not whence to love God, unless from God; and therefore he says a little after, “Let us love Him, because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 7–19
Read the whole comment“With striking clearness is this declared by the same evangelist in his epistle: “We love God because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 19.
Read the whole comment“Let this same evangelist give us the answer out of his own epistle: “We love Him,” he says, “because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 19.
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Leo the Great
“And the Apostle John teaches us how this has been fulfilled, when he says, “We know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and may be in Him that is true, even His Son,” and again, “let us therefore love God, because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20, and iv. 19 ( the latter loosely).
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 102.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.7.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.7.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.7.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 16:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 16:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 16:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in Catechism §604 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.