Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For this is the message that you have 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;
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Love, So Love One Another
10 In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother, 11 because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another, 12 not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.
Cross References
1 John 1:5
And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;
2 John 1:5
and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,
John 13:34-35
'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
John 15:12
'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
1 John 4:7
Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
1 John 4:21
and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
Galatians 6:2
of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
Ephesians 5:2
and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
1 Thessalonians 4:9
And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
1 Timothy 1:5
And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
1 Peter 1:22
Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
1 Peter 3:8
And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
1 Peter 4:8
and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
1 John 2:7-8
Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;