1 John 3:11–24

¹¹Because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another, ¹²not as Cain—of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. ¹³Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you.

¹⁴We—we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. ¹⁵Every one who is hating his brother—a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, ¹⁶in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; ¹⁷and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth! ¹⁹and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts.

²⁰Because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, ²²and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do.

²³And this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us, ²⁴and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

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