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1 John 3:16

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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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  1. 1 John 3:14

    We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

  2. 1 John 3:15

    Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

  3. 1 John 3:17

    But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

  4. 1 John 3:18

    My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.