1 John 3:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

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  • 2 John 1:5 : 5 Warning Against False Teachers But now I ask you, lady(not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
  • John 15:12 : 12 My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 “I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
  • 1 John 2:7-8 : 7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard. 8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

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  • 2 John 1:5-7
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    5Warning Against False Teachers But now I ask you, lady(not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

    6(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

  • 1 John 4:7-12
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    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

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

    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

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

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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

    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • 1 John 3:12-18
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    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

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

    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

    15Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

    17But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

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

  • 1 John 3:10
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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

  • 1 John 3:23
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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 gave us the commandment.

  • 1 John 2:6-11
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    6The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

    7Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

    8On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

    9The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

    10The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

    11But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 1:1-3
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    1¶ The Prologue to the Letter This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched(concerning the word of life–

    2and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

    3What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

  • John 15:12
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    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • John 15:17
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    17This I command you– to love one another.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34“I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

  • Heb 13:1
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    1Final Exhortations Brotherly love must continue.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • 1 John 2:24
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    24As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

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

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

  • 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 him,

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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

    17By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

  • 1 John 3:8
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    8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5The Charge to Gaius Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers(even though they are strangers).