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1 John 3:11–5:12

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11aFor this is the message bwhich you have heard from the beginning, cthat we should love one another;

12not as aCain, who was of bthe evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because chis deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brethren, if athe world hates you.

14We know that we have apassed out of death into life, bbecause we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

15Everyone who ahates his brother is a murderer; and you know that bno murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16We know love by this, that aHe laid down His life for us; and bwe ought to lay down our lives for the cbrethren.

17But awhoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and bcloses his 1heart 2against him, chow does the love of God abide in him?

18aLittle children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and btruth.

19We will know by this that we are aof the truth, and will 1assure our heart before Him

201in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

21aBeloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have bconfidence 1before God;

22and awhatever we ask we receive from Him, because we bkeep His commandments and do cthe things that are pleasing in His sight.

23This is His commandment, that we 1abelieve in bthe name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as cHe 2commanded us.

24The one who akeeps His commandments babides in Him, and He in him. cWe know by this that dHe abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Chapter 4

Testing the Spirits

1aBeloved, do not believe every bspirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because cmany false prophets have gone out into the world.

2By this you know the Spirit of God: aevery spirit that bconfesses that cJesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

3and every spirit that adoes not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the bantichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and cnow it is already in the world.

4You are from God, alittle children, and bhave overcome them; because cgreater is He who is in you than dhe who is in the world.

5aThey are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

6aWe are from God; bhe who knows God listens to us; che who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know dthe spirit of truth and ethe spirit of error.

God Is Love

7aBeloved, let us blove one another, for love is from God; and ceveryone who loves is 1dborn of God and eknows God.

8The one who does not love does not know God, for aGod is love.

9By this the love of God was manifested 1ain us, that bGod has sent His 2only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

10In this is love, anot that we loved God, but that bHe loved us and sent His Son to be cthe propitiation for our sins.

11aBeloved, if God so loved us, bwe also ought to love one another.

12aNo one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His blove is perfected in us.

13aBy this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

14We have seen and atestify that the Father has bsent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

15aWhoever confesses that bJesus is the Son of God, God cabides in him, and he in God.

16aWe have come to know and have believed the love which God has 1bfor us. cGod is love, and the one who dabides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

17By this, alove is perfected with us, so that we may have bconfidence in cthe day of judgment; because das He is, so also are we in this world.

18There is no fear in love; but aperfect love casts out fear, because fear 1involves punishment, and the one who fears is not bperfected in love.

19aWe love, because He first loved us.

20aIf someone says, “I love God,” and bhates his brother, he is a cliar; for dthe one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ecannot love God whom he has not seen.

21And athis commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God bshould love his brother also.

Chapter 5

Overcoming the World

1aWhoever believes that Jesus is the 1Christ is 2bborn of God, and whoever loves the 3Father cloves the child born of Him.

2aBy this we know that bwe love the children of God, when we love God and 1observe His commandments.

3For athis is the love of God, that we bkeep His commandments; and cHis commandments are not burdensome.

4For whatever is 1aborn of God bovercomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

5Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who abelieves that Jesus is the Son of God?

6This is the One who came aby water and blood, Jesus Christ; not 1with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is bthe Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

7For there are athree that testify:

81the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are 2in agreement.

9aIf we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that bHe has testified concerning His Son.

10The one who believes in the Son of God ahas the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has bmade Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

11And the testimony is this, that God has given us aeternal life, and bthis life is in His Son.

12aHe who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

Read in Logos
1 John 3:16: By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Footnotes

  1. 1Lit inward parts
  2. 2Lit from
  3. 1Lit persuade
  4. 1Or that if our heart condemns us, that God …
  5. 1Lit toward
  6. 1Or believe the name
  7. 2Lit gave us a commandment
  8. 1Or begotten
  9. 1Or in our case
  10. 2Or unique, only one of His kind
  11. 1Lit in
  12. 1Lit has
  13. 1I.e. Messiah
  14. 2Or begotten
  15. 3Lit one who begets
  16. 1Lit do
  17. 1Or begotten
  18. 1Lit in
  19. 1A few late mss add … in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit
  20. 2Lit for the one thing

Cross references

  1. a1 John 1:5
  2. b1 John 2:7
  3. cJohn 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5
  4. aGen 4:8
  5. bMatt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f
  6. cPs 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41
  7. aJohn 15:18; 17:14
  8. aJohn 5:24
  9. bJohn 13:35; 1 John 2:10
  10. aMatt 5:21f; John 8:44
  11. bGal 5:20f; Rev 21:8
  12. aJohn 10:11; 15:13
  13. bPhil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8
  14. c1 John 2:9
  15. aJames 2:15f
  16. bDeut 15:7
  17. c1 John 4:20
  18. a1 John 2:1; 3:7
  19. b2 John 1; 3 John 1
  20. a1 John 2:21
  21. a1 John 3:2
  22. b1 John 2:28; 5:14
  23. aJob 22:26f; Matt 7:7; 21:22; John 9:31
  24. b1 John 2:3
  25. cJohn 8:29; Heb 13:21
  26. aJohn 6:29
  27. bJohn 1:12; 2:23; 3:18
  28. cJohn 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 2:8
  29. a1 John 2:3
  30. bJohn 6:56; 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 4:15
  31. cJohn 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess 4:8; 1 John 4:13
  32. d1 John 2:5
  33. a3 John 11
  34. bJer 29:8; 1 Cor 12:10; 1 Thess 5:20f; 2 Thess 2:2
  35. cJer 14:14; 2 Pet 2:1; 1 John 2:18
  36. a1 Cor 12:3
  37. b1 John 2:23
  38. cJohn 1:14; 1 John 1:2
  39. a1 John 2:22; 2 John 7
  40. b1 John 2:18, 22
  41. c2 Thess 2:3–7; 1 John 2:18
  42. a1 John 2:1
  43. b1 John 2:13
  44. cRom 8:31; 1 John 3:20
  45. dJohn 12:31
  46. aJohn 15:19; 17:14, 16
  47. aJohn 8:23; 1 John 4:4
  48. bJohn 8:47; 10:3ff; 18:37
  49. c1 Cor 14:37
  50. dJohn 14:17
  51. e1 Tim 4:1
  52. a1 John 2:7
  53. b1 John 3:11
  54. c1 John 5:1
  55. d1 John 2:29
  56. e1 Cor 8:3; 1 John 2:3
  57. a1 John 4:7, 16
  58. aJohn 9:3; 1 John 4:16
  59. bJohn 3:16f; 1 John 4:10; 5:11
  60. aRom 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19
  61. bJohn 3:16f; 1 John 4:9; 5:11
  62. c1 John 2:2
  63. a1 John 2:7
  64. b1 John 4:7
  65. aJohn 1:18; 1 Tim 6:16; 1 John 4:20
  66. b1 John 2:5; 4:17f
  67. aRom 8:9; 1 John 3:24
  68. aJohn 15:27; 1 John 1:2
  69. bJohn 3:17; 4:42; 1 John 2:2
  70. a1 John 2:23
  71. bRom 10:9; 1 John 3:23; 4:2; 5:1, 5
  72. c1 John 2:24; 3:24
  73. aJohn 6:69
  74. bJohn 9:3; 1 John 4:9
  75. c1 John 4:7, 8
  76. d1 John 4:12f
  77. a1 John 2:5; 4:12
  78. b1 John 2:28
  79. cMatt 10:15
  80. dJohn 17:22; 1 John 2:6; 3:1, 7, 16
  81. aRom 8:15
  82. b1 John 4:12
  83. a1 John 4:10
  84. a1 John 1:6, 8, 10; 2:4
  85. b1 John 2:9, 11
  86. c1 John 1:6
  87. d1 John 3:17
  88. e1 Pet 1:8; 1 John 4:12
  89. aLev 19:18; Matt 5:43f; 22:37ff; John 13:34
  90. b1 John 3:11
  91. a1 John 2:22f; 4:2, 15
  92. bJohn 1:3; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 5:4, 18
  93. cJohn 8:42
  94. a1 John 2:5
  95. b1 John 3:14
  96. aJohn 14:15; 2 John 6
  97. b1 John 2:3
  98. cMatt 11:30; 23:4
  99. aJohn 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 5:1, 18
  100. b1 John 2:13; 4:4
  101. a1 John 4:15; 5:1
  102. aJohn 19:34
  103. bMatt 3:16f; John 15:26; 16:13–15
  104. aMatt 18:16
  105. aJohn 5:34, 37; 8:18
  106. bMatt 3:17; John 5:32, 37
  107. aRom 8:16; Gal 4–6; Rev 12:17
  108. bJohn 3:18, 33; 1 John 1:10
  109. aJohn 3:36; 1 John 1:2; 2:25; 4:9; 5:13, 20
  110. bJohn 1:4
  111. aJohn 3:15f, 36

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