1 John 3:16

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Summary

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Perceive

And we

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Bible References

Perceive

In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.

as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give His soul a ransom for many.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one believing on Him may not perish but have eternal life.

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father; and I lay down My soul for the sheep.

No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends.

Take heed to yourselves, and all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost has placed you shepherds, to shepherdise the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.

and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.

looking for the blessed hope even the appearing of the glory of our great God and our Saviour Christ Jesus;

knowing that you have been redeemed from your depraved character transmitted from your ancestors, not by corruptible things, silver or gold,

who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.

Because Christ indeed once died for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in spirit:

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstbegotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To the one loving us with divine love, and having washed us from our sins in His own blood,

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to receive the book, and to open its seals: because thou wast slain, and didst with thy blood redeem unto God out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

And we

The one saying that he abides in him ought himself so to walk about, as he also did walk about.

Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love.

I give unto a new commandment, That you must love one another with divine love; as I have loved you with divine love, that you must also love one another with divine love:

This is my commandment, that you may love one another, as I loved you.

who laid down their neck for my life; and for whom not I alone hut all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;

But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all;

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Give to the one asking thee, and do not turn away from the one wishing to borrow from thee.

For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink:

I command these things unto you, that you must love one another with divine love.

Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love.