Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Holman Bible
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,
International Standard Version
This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
A Conservative Version
Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.
American Standard Version
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
Amplified
For this is the message which you [believers] have heard from the beginning [of your relationship with Christ], that we should [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another;
An Understandable Version
[Now] this is the message that you people heard from the beginning [of Christ's ministry], that we should love one another [See Mark 12:31],
Anderson New Testament
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Bible in Basic English
Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
Common New Testament
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
Daniel Mace New Testament
for this is the doctrine that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Darby Translation
For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Godbey New Testament
Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another,
Goodspeed New Testament
For the message you have heard from the beginning is this: We must love one another.
John Wesley New Testament
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we love one another.
Julia Smith Translation
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
King James 2000
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Modern King James verseion
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For this is the tidings, that ye heard at the beginning, that we should love one another:
Moffatt New Testament
For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:
Montgomery New Testament
For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
NET Bible
For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
New Heart English Bible
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Noyes New Testament
For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Sawyer New Testament
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;
The Emphasized Bible
Because, this, is the message which ye have heard from the beginning - that we should be loving one another, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For these are the Tidings that we heard from the first--that we are to love one another.
Webster
For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Weymouth New Testament
For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.
Williams New Testament
it is so because the message that you have heard from the beginning is this: We should love one another.
World English Bible
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Worrell New Testament
because this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Worsley New Testament
for this is the injunction which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother;
Youngs Literal Translation
because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
Topics
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Usage: 472
References
Watsons
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Love, So Love One Another
10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another, 12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And {for what reason} did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the [deeds] of his brother [were] righteous.
Cross References
1 John 1:5
And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there [is] no darkness in him at all.
2 John 1:5
And now I ask you, lady (not as [if I were] writing a new commandment to you, but [one] that we have had from the beginning), that we should love one another.
John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
John 15:12
This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.
1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
1 John 4:21
And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
Galatians 6:2
Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Ephesians 5:2
and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,
1 Peter 3:8
And finally, all [of you be] harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble,
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.
1 John 2:7-8
Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message which you have heard.