Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
My little children, we should not love in word, neither in tongue; but in work and 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.
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.
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
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Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Love, So Love One Another
17 And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him? 18 My little children, we should not love in word, neither in tongue; but in work and truth. 19 And in this we know that we are of the truth, and we will yield our hearts before him.
Cross References
Romans 12:9
Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:
Ezekiel 33:31
And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder.
Matthew 25:41-45
Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers:
Ephesians 4:15
And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
Galatians 5:13
For ye were called to liberty brethren; only not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve ye one another.
Galatians 6:1-2
Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.
Ephesians 4:1-3
Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called,
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father;
James 2:15-16
And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food,
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially:
2 John 1:1-15
The elder to the chosen mistress in truth; (and not I only, but also all and to her children, whom I love they having known the truth;)
Exodus 33:21
And Jehovah will say, Behold, a place with me, and stand thou upon the rock.