1 John 3:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 2 John 1:5 : 5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
  • John 15:12 : 12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another. 35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
  • 1 John 2:7-8 : 7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears. 8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 John 1:5-7
    3 verses
    83%

    5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

    6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

    7 Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

  • 1 John 4:7-12
    6 verses
    81%

    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

    8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

    9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

    10 And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

    11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

    12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

  • 1 John 4:19-21
    3 verses
    81%

    19 We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

    20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

    21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

  • 1 John 3:12-18
    7 verses
    80%

    12 Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

    13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

    14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

    15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

    16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

    17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

  • 1 John 3:10
    80%

    10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

  • 1 John 3:23
    79%

    23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

  • 1 John 2:6-11
    6 verses
    77%

    6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

    7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

    8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

    9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

    10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

    11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

  • 1 John 1:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

    2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

  • 3 John 1:11
    75%

    11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

  • John 15:12
    74%

    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

  • John 15:17
    74%

    17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

    35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • 1 John 3:1
    73%

    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • Heb 13:1
    73%

    1 Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    73%

    22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • 1 John 2:24
    73%

    24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    72%

    9 But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

  • 1 John 5:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

    2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

    3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

  • 1 John 2:15
    72%

    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
    71%

    12 And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

  • 1 John 1:5
    71%

    5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

    17 In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

  • 1 John 3:8
    70%

    8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

  • 3 John 1:5
    70%

    5 My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;