Key Verse Spotlight
1 John 3:11 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. {message: or, commandment}”
1 John 3:11
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. {is born: or, has been born}
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. {message: or, commandment}
Not as Cain, {who} was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
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