1 John 3:11-20 (Epistle)
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- For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
- 12
- not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
- 13
- Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.
- 14
- We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
- 15
- Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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- By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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- But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
- 18
- My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
- 19
- And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.
- 20
- For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.