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1 John 3:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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

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14 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.

15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

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

17 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?

18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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1 John 3:1

"See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him."

1 John 3:2

"Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is."

1 John 3:3

"Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure."

1 John 3:4

"Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness."

1 John 3:5

"You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him."

1 John 3:6

"Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him."

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