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Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
ἡμεῖς ἀγαπῶμεν, ὅτι αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς
we /are/_loving because he first loved us
This verse summarizes the idea of verse 10. See how you translated there. If it would be helpful in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. Alternate translation: “Because God first loved us, we love”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἡμεῖς ἀγαπῶμεν
we /are/_loving
If you need to say who it is that We love, there are two possibilities, and John probably intended both here. If you must choose, then we recommend option (1) below, but if your translation can include both possibilities as in the UST, that would be best. Alternate translation: (1) “We love God” or (2) “We love others”
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς
he first loved us
The pronoun he refers to God. Alternate translation: “God first loved us”
4:19 God loved us first, while we were sinners, not only after we gave sin up (Rom 8:5-11). God started the process; when he loved us he enabled us to respond to him in love and to extend that love to others.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.