1 John 3:11

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11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1 John 3:11 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
English Standard Version (ESV)
11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
New Living Translation (NLT)
11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
The Message Bible (MSG)
11 For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.
American Standard Version (ASV)
11 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
11 The message that you have heard from the beginning is to love each other.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another,
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
11 From the beginning we have heard that we should love one another.

1 John 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 John 3:11

For this is the message
Sent from God by Christ, or what he in his ministry declared, and is the commandment which was so frequently urged by him, ( John 13:34 ) ( John 15:12 John 15:17 ) ;

that ye have heard from the beginning;
of the preaching of the Gospel to them, and of their conversion; see ( 1 John 2:7 ) ;

that we should love one another;
to which the command of Christ, the reason with which it is enforced, and the early notice of it, should engage.

1 John 3:11 In-Context

9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.
13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

Cross References 3

  • 1. 1 John 1:5
  • 2. S 1 John 2:7
  • 3. John 13:34,35; John 15:12; 1Jn 4:7,11,21; 2 John 5
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