1 John 3:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • John 5:24 : 24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
  • John 13:35 : 35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
  • 1 John 5:2 : 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.
  • Matt 25:40 : 40 And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
  • John 15:12 : 12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
  • 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;
  • Heb 6:10-11 : 10 For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints. 11 And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Go on loving your brothers in the 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:
  • 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:
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
  • 1 John 2:3 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
  • John 15:17 : 17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
  • Eph 1:15 : 15 For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,
  • Eph 2:1 : 1 And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
  • Eph 2:5 : 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
  • Col 1:4 : 4 After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,
  • Luke 15:24 : 24 For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
  • Prov 21:16 : 16 The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 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 4:7-8 : 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.
  • 1 John 4:12 : 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 4:20-21 : 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 5:19-20 : 19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One. 20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
  • 1 John 5:13 : 13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.
  • Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
  • 1 John 2:9-9 : 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.

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  • 1 John 3:15-19
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    15Anyone 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.

    16In 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.

    17But 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?

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

    19In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

    20If 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?

    21And 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.

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    10In 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.

    11Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

    12Not 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.

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

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    6We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7My 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.

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

    9And 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.

    10And 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.

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

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

    13And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

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

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

    11But 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.

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    16And 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.

    17In 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.

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    1Everyone 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.

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

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

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    3And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

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    23And 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.

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    5But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

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

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    1Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

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    11And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

    13I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

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    6If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

    7But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

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    16If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

    17All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

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    3We 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:

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    9Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

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    19We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

    20And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

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    7And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

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    10Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.