Parallel Verses
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.
Anderson New Testament
My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.
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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References
Watsons
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:18
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Prayers for 1 John 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Love, So Love One Another
17
But whosoever has this world's goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?
18
Cross References
Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation, abhorring that which is evil, causing you to come unto that which is good;
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye sin not; and if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate before the Father, Jesus, the righteous Christ;
Ezekiel 33:31
And they shall come unto thee as the people come, and they shall be before thee, my people, and they shall hear thy words, but they shall not do them; for with their mouth they flatter, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
Matthew 25:41-45
Then he shall also say unto those who shall be on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels;
Ephesians 4:15
but following the truth in charity, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up,
Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only do not use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by charity serve one another.
Galatians 6:1-2
Brethren, if anyone is overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.
Ephesians 4:1-3
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,
1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,
James 2:15-16
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth, by the Spirit, in unfeigned brotherly love, love one another with a pure heart fervently,
2 John 1:1-15
The elder unto the chosen lady and her sons, whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but also all those that have known the truth,
Exodus 33:21
And the LORD continued saying, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock;