1 John 3:14

World English Bible (2000)

We 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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡμεῖς οἴδαμεν ὅτι μεταβεβήκαμεν ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου εἰς τὴν ζωήν, ὅτι ἀγαπῶμεν τοὺς ἀδελφούς. Ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἀδελφόν μένει ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ.

Transliteration

We oidamen that we have metabebēkamen from thanatou into zōēn, because we agapōmen the adelphous. The one not agapōn the adelphon menei in thanatō.

Grammar Details

• *oidamen*: perfect active, 1st plural - we know
• *metabebēkamen*: perfect active, 1st plural - we have passed
• *thanatou*: genitive, masculine, singular - death
• *zōēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life
• *agapōmen*: present active, 1st plural - we love
• *adelphous*: accusative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *agapōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - loving
• *adelphon*: accusative, masculine, singular - brother
• *menei*: present active, 3rd singular - remains/abides
• *thanatō*: dative, masculine, singular - death

Word Meanings

• *oidamen*: we know/understand (with certainty)
• *metabebēkamen*: we have passed/crossed over/transitioned
• *thanatou*: death/demise
• *zōēn*: life/existence
• *agapōmen*: we love/cherish
• *adelphous*: brothers/fellow believers
• *agapōn*: loving/cherishing
• *adelphon*: brother/fellow believer
• *menei*: remains/abides/continues
• *thanatō*: death/demise

Referenced Verses

• John 5:24 : 24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• John 13:35 : 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
• 1 John 5:2 : 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
• Matt 25:40 : 40 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
• John 15:12 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
• 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,
• Heb 6:10-11 : 10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. 11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
• Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love continue.
• 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:
• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
• 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• 1 John 2:3 : 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
• John 15:17 : 17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Eph 1:15 : 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
• Eph 2:1 : 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
• Eph 2:5 : 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
• Col 1:4 : 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
• Luke 15:24 : 24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.
• Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"
• Prov 21:16 : 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
• 1 John 3:23 : 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• 1 John 4:7-8 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. 8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No 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 4:20-21 : 20 If 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? 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 John 5:13 : 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
• Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
• 1 John 2:9-9 : 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. 11 But 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.