1 John 3:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

We 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.

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  • John 3:16 : 16 For this is the way God loved the world: 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 is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In 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. 11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
  • John 13:34 : 34 “I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
  • 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.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in 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 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
  • 1 John 2:6 : 6 The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  • John 10:15 : 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and 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 for her
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were 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 revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

    11God 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,

    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.

  • 1 John 4:7-13
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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.

    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 3:17-19
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    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.

    19And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

  • 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.

  • John 15:12-13
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    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

    13No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.

  • 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.

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

  • 1 John 5:2-3
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    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 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 gave us the commandment.

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

  • John 3:16
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    16For this is the way God loved the world: 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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    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.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

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

  • 1 John 2:10
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    10The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

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

    6The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

  • 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.

  • John 10:17
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    17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

  • 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 Cor 8:3
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    3But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

  • 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 him,

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

  • 1 John 1:3
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    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).

  • Eph 5:2
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    2and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

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

  • 1 John 5:16
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    16If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.

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