Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Holman Bible
Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.
International Standard Version
Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.
A Conservative Version
My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
American Standard Version
My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
Amplified
Little children (believers, dear ones), let us not love [merely in theory] with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth [in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words].
An Understandable Version
Little children [i.e., dear ones], we should not [merely] claim to love [people], or [even just] talk about it, but [we should love] by what we do [for them] in a genuine way.
Bible in Basic English
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
Common New Testament
Little children, let us not love in word or tongue but in deed and in truth.
Daniel Mace New Testament
my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.
Darby Translation
Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue; but in deed, and in truth.
Godbey New Testament
Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.
John Wesley New Testament
My beloved children, let us love not in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Julia Smith Translation
My little children, we should not love in word, neither in tongue; but in work and truth.
King James 2000
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
Modern King James verseion
My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:
Moffatt New Testament
My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.
Montgomery New Testament
My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.
NET Bible
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
New Heart English Bible
Little children, let us not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
Noyes New Testament
My children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Sawyer New Testament
My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in work and truth.
The Emphasized Bible
Dear children! Let us not be loving in word, nor yet with the tongue, but in deed and truth.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;
Twentieth Century New Testament
My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.
Webster
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Weymouth New Testament
Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.
Williams New Testament
Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.
World English Bible
My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
Worrell New Testament
Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Worsley New Testament
My little children, let us not love in word, or in tongue only, but in deed and in truth.
Youngs Literal Translation
My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
Themes
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
Love to man » Saints should » Be sincere in
Religion » Characteristics of » False profession
Religion » Examples of piety » Sincerity a mark of
Sincerity » Should characterize » Our love to one another
True religion » Examples of piety » Sincerity a mark of
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Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Love, So Love One Another
17 Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth; and we shall have our hearts at rest before him:
Cross References
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good;
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these things to you, that you may not sin: and yet, if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Matthew 25:41-45
Then will he say to those on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truthfully in love, we might grow up in all things, into him who is the head, even the Christ,
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,
Galatians 5:13
For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.
Galatians 6:1-2
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in any fault, do you, who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.
Ephesians 4:1-3
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;
1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:
James 2:15-16
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,
2 John 1:1-15
THE elder to the elect lady, and to her children, whom I love in the truth: and not I only, but also all who know the truth;