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11 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
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For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
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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 Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.
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Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
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We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
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If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
18 [My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
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Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
19 Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
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This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:
20 because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
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If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;
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Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
22 and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
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and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
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And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
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The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
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