Sinai1 John 3:16
American Standard Version
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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1 John 3:16 in other translations
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16 in context
- 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
- 15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
- 16Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
- 17But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
- 18My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.