1John.3.11

For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.

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This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1John.3.11

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

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This is the message we have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1John.3.12

We must not be like Cain, who joined the Evil One and then killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because he was deep in the practice of evil, while the acts of his brother were righteous.

1John.3.12

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.

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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.

1John.3.12

We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was right.

1John.3.13

So don't be surprised, friends, when the world hates you. This has been going on a long time.

1John.3.13

Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

1John.3.13

Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.

1John.3.13

So don't be surprised, dear brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

1John.3.14

The way we know we've been transferred from death to life is that we love our brothers and sisters. Anyone who doesn't love is as good as dead.

1John.3.14

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

1John.3.14

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.

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If we love our Christian brothers and sisters, it proves that we have passed from death to eternal life. But a person who has no love is still dead.

1John.3.15

Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know very well that eternal life and murder don't go together.

1John.3.15

Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

1John.3.15

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

1John.3.15

Anyone who hates another Christian is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don't have eternal life within them.

1John.3.16

This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves.

1John.3.16

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.

1John.3.16

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.

1John.3.16

We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us. And so we also ought to give up our lives for our Christian brothers and sisters.

1John.3.17

If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God's love? It disappears. And you made it disappear.

1John.3.17

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

1John.3.17

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?

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But if anyone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need and refuses to help--how can God's love be in that person?

1John.3.18

My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love.

1John.3.18

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

1John.3.18

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

1John.3.18

Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.

1John.3.19

This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality.

1John.3.19

This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence

1John.3.19

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

1John.3.19

It is by our actions that we know we are living in the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before the Lord,

1John.3.20

It's also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.

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whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1John.3.20

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

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even if our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1John.3.21

And friends, once that's taken care of and we're no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we're bold and free before God!

1John.3.21

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God

1John.3.21

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

1John.3.21

Dear friends, if our conscience is clear, we can come to God with bold confidence.

1John.3.22

We're able to stretch our hands out and receive what we asked for because we're doing what he said, doing what pleases him.

1John.3.22

and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

1John.3.22

And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

1John.3.22

And we will receive whatever we request because we obey him and do the things that please him.

1John.3.23

Again, this is God's command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ. He told us to love each other, in line with the original command.

1John.3.23

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

1John.3.23

And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

1John.3.23

And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us.

1John.3.24

As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.

1John.3.24

Those who obey his commands live 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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Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

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Those who obey God's commandments live in fellowship with him, and he with them. And we know he lives in us because the Holy Spirit lives in us.

1John.4.1

My dear friends, don't believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.

1John.4.1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1John.4.1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1John.4.1

Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.

1John.4.2

Here's how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ--the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person--comes from God and belongs to God.

1John.4.2

This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

1John.4.2

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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This is the way to find out if they have the Spirit of God: If a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ became a human being, that person has the Spirit of God.

1John.4.3

And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought!

1John.4.3

but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

1John.4.3

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

1John.4.3

If a prophet does not acknowledge Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist. You have heard that he is going to come into the world, and he is already here.

1John.4.4

My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world.

1John.4.4

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1John.4.4

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

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But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won your fight with these false prophets, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.

1John.4.5

These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world's language and the world eats it up.

1John.4.5

They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

1John.4.5

They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.

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These people belong to this world, so they speak from the world's viewpoint, and the world listens to them.

1John.4.6

But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.

1John.4.6

We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

1John.4.6

We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

1John.4.6

But we belong to God; that is why those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.