1 John 3:16

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This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

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  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
  • John 13:34 : 34 'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood,
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 while we await the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the Spirit.
  • 1 John 2:6 : 6 Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 They risked their lives for me, and not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are thankful to them.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
  • John 10:15 : 15 Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were slain, and with your blood, you purchased for God people from every tribe, language, people, and nation."
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life, inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for what was lacking in your service to me.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness. By His wounds, you have been healed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 3:10-15
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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

    12Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

    13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

    15Everyone who hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in them.

  • 1 John 4:7-13
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    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

    10In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

  • 1 John 3:17-19
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    17But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

    19By this we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts in His presence.

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19We love because He first loved us.

    20If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates their brother or sister, they are a liar. For the one who does not love their brother or sister whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.

    21And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.

  • John 15:12-13
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    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

    13Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.

    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 John 5:2-3
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    2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.

    24The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.

  • John 3:16
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    16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • John 13:35
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    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

    15And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

  • 1 John 2:10
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    10Whoever loves their brother or sister abides in the light, and in them there is no cause for stumbling.

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    5But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

    6Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • John 10:17
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    17The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

  • 1 John 5:11
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    11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

  • John 15:17
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    17This is my command: Love one another.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3what we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7to godliness, brotherly love; and to brotherly love, love.

  • 1 John 5:16
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    16If anyone sees a brother or sister committing a sin that does not lead to death, they should pray, and God will give life to them—those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying that one should pray about that.

  • John 10:11
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    11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.