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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Perceive

In this the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.

even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with His own blood.

But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.

looking for the blessed hope, and the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,

He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.

And we

He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

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

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

who have laid down their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also the churches of the nations.

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

Deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling to be killed, unless you hold back.

Give to him who asks of you, and you shall not turn away from him who would borrow from you.

For I was hungry, and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave Me no drink;

These things I command you, that you love one another.

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