1 John 3:11

World English Bible (2000)

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

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  • 2 John 1:5 : 5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
  • John 15:12 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
  • 1 John 2:7-8 : 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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    5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

    6This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

  • 1 John 4:7-12
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    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

    8He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

    9By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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

    11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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

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

    20If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

    21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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    12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

    13Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

    15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

    16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

    18My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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    10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

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    23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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    6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

    7Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

    8Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

    9He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

    10He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

    11But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 1:1-3
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    1That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

    2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

    3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

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    11Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

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    12"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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    17"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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    34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

    35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

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    1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

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    1Let brotherly love continue.

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    22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

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    24Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

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    9But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

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    15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

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    12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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    5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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    16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

    17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

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    8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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    5Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.