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

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so 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 this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but 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 one lays down his life for his friends.

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with 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 Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

They were singing a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

And we

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

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

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Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.

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

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

This I command you -- to love one another.

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.