1 John 3:16

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By 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. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
  • John 13:34 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 washed us from our sins by his blood;
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man came not 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 for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • 1 John 2:6 : 6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
  • John 10:15 : 15 even 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, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

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  • 1 John 3:10-15
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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.

    11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

    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.

  • 1 John 4:7-13
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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.

    13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because 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 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.

    19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

  • 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.

  • John 15:12-13
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    12"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

    13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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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.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet 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, when we love God and keep his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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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.

    24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

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    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • John 13:35
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    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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    3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

    15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

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

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    5But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

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

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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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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:

  • John 10:17
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    17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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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,

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 John 5:11
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    11The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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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.

  • John 15:17
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    17"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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    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.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2Walk 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.

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

  • 1 John 5:16
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    16If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.

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    11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.