1 John 3:11
Greek Text— 1 John 3:11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
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Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
Let brotherly love continue.
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,