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 was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

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,

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

and they sing a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

And we

He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations --

but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,

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and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.

If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back.

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink;

'These things I command you, that ye love one another;

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;