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

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life [as] a ransom for many."

For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own [Son].

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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.

looking forward to the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, in order that he could bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood

And they were singing a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and bought [people] for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation,

And we

The one who says [that he] resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

who risked their own necks for my life, for which not only I am thankful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and rejoice with all of you.

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And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I [am] commanding you thus {today}.

Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back,

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

For I was hungry and you did not give me [anything] to eat, I was thirsty and you did not give me [anything] to drink,

These [things] I command you: that you love one another.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.