By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 John 3:16 in context
1 John 3:13–19
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Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
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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.
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Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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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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But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
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My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,
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